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Iraq’s Shia ruling bloc backs Nouri al-Maliki for prime minister
BAGHDAD (Realist English). Iraq’s main Shia political alliance, which holds a majority in parliament, has endorsed former prime minister Nouri...
US threatens Iraq with sanctions over Iran-backed groups’ role in next government
BAGHDAD (Realist English). The United States has warned senior Iraqi politicians that it could impose sanctions on the Iraqi state...
US Treasury chief says sanctions helped trigger Iran unrest
DAVOS (Realist English). US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly acknowledged that American sanctions played a role in destabilising Iran’s...
Iran warns Trump against action targeting Supreme Leader as US carrier moves west
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran on Tuesday issued a sharp warning to US President Donald Trump, cautioning against any action targeting...
Israeli forces launch large-scale operation in Hebron, imposing sweeping lockdown
HEBRON (Realist English). The Israeli military has launched what it described as a “large-scale” operation in Hebron, deploying hundreds of...
Nearly 4,000 killed in Iran protests, rights group says
TEHRAN (Realist English). At least 3,919 people have been killed during the recent wave of protests in Iran and the...
Iran’s protests revive memories of 1979 as crackdown signals deeper risk to the theocracy
TEHRAN (Realist English). Nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocratic system have, within days, spiralled into a violent crackdown whose reported death...
Iran warns it is ready for war as Trump weighs military options
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that Tehran is ready for war if the United States...
Erdogan urges Turks to have more children, warns of looming demographic crisis
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again stressed the need to boost the country’s population, warning that...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
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