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Hamas signals willingness to halt attacks for up to a decade if Israel fully withdraws from Gaza, Palestinian official says
GAZA (Realist English). Hamas has told mediators it is prepared to suspend all offensive operations against Israel for seven to...
Qatar and Egypt urge Israeli withdrawal and rapid deployment of international force to secure Gaza ceasefire
DOHA (Realist English). Qatar and Egypt, acting as guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, called on Saturday for Israel to withdraw...
US asks Yemen’s Aden-based government about joining Gaza stabilisation force
ADEN (Realist English). The Trump administration has approached Yemen’s internationally recognised government (IRG) in Aden about potentially contributing troops to...
Turkey prepares major troop deployment for planned Gaza peacekeeping mission
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is assembling a large peacekeeping contingent for potential deployment to Gaza as part of a US-brokered...
Saudi Arabia outlines plan to lead Gaza stabilization, sideline Hamas, and back Palestinian Authority reforms
RIYADH (Realist English). Saudi Arabia intends to take a leading role in post-war Gaza by helping to disarm and marginalize...
JD Vance visits Israel, says Gaza ceasefire “going better than expected”
KIRYAT GAT (Realist English). U.S. Vice President JD Vance expressed optimism on Tuesday that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would...
Hamas frees 20 Israeli hostages as Israel releases nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under Gaza truce deal
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Hamas released 20 Israeli hostages on Monday as part of a wide-ranging prisoner swap agreement designed...
Israel, Hamas signal readiness to begin Trump’s Gaza peace plan
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israel’s government and military announced early Saturday that they are preparing to implement the first stage of...
Tony Blair backs Trump’s Gaza plan despite Labour unease
LONDON (Realist English). Former British prime minister Sir Tony Blair has endorsed Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war,...
Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s new supreme leader as regional war intensifies
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Assembly of Experts has appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
China says Middle East war “should never have happened” as Beijing prepares for Trump visit
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the war in the Middle East “should never have happened,” warning...
Trump attends dignified transfer for six US soldiers killed in Middle East war
DOVER (Realist English). US President Donald Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony on Saturday at Dover Air Force Base for...
Iran pledges to halt attacks on neighboring states as war with US and Israel escalates
DUBAI (Realist English). Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran would halt attacks against neighboring countries as the war with the...
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...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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