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Turkey and Qatar reshape Syria’s future as Trump pivots away from US intervention
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Turkey and Qatar have become pivotal players in President Donald Trump’s redefined Middle East, taking the lead...
Tom Barrack appointed U.S. Special Envoy for Syria, backs Trump’s Middle East reset
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Tom Barrack, the former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, announced on...
Gold fever grips post-Assad Syria as treasure hunters scour land for buried riches
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime last December, a new nightly ritual has taken hold on...
Druze leader warns Israel: Syria massacre is a red flag for our own security
AKKO (Realist English). Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, issued a stark warning on...
Syrian lawyers call for investigation into attacks on Druze community in Suwayda
DAMASCUS (Realist English). The Committee for Human Rights and Public Freedoms of the Syrian Bar Association’s Suwayda branch has issued...
Druze leader accuses Syrian government of ‘genocidal campaign’ after deadly clashes near Damascus
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual head of Syria’s Druze community, has accused the country’s new government of...
Turkey agrees to withdraw troops from Syria: Al-Watan
DAMASCUS (Realist English). After the Moscow meeting of the defense ministers of Turkey, Syria and Russia, Turkey agreed to withdraw...
US barred Türkiye from carrying out military operation in Syria: Kurdish military commander
LONDON (Realist English). The United States has barred Turkey from conducting a ground military operation in Syria. This was stated...
Turkey “gave time” to Russia to withdraw the Kurdish militia from Tell Rifaat
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Russian officials are trying to convince Damascus and the Kurdish militia to leave the Syrian city of...
FBI launches criminal investigation into former CIA and FBI chiefs over 2016 Russia probe
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
Putin calls for deeper BRICS cooperation and new financial infrastructure at Rio summit
RIO DE JANEIRO (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin called for stronger integration among BRICS nations and greater independence from...
Elon Musk announces launch of third party after fallout with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Saturday the formation of a new political force — the America...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
Bezos’s Venetian wedding: a manifesto of new feudalism
VENICE (Realist English). When Jeff Bezos rents half of Venice for a $50 million wedding, it is more than the...
Not Mossad’s strength — but Iran’s weakness
TBILISI (Realist English). The recent targeted assassinations of senior IRGC commanders and high-ranking Iranian officers are not simply the triumph...
The Church belongs to Christ, not to politicians: The Armenian Apostolic Church becomes a casualty of Yerevan’s political agony
YEREVAN (Realist English). First, they handed over part of the Holy Land to the Baku fascists, betraying the Armenians of...
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