Trump warns Russia, China against helping Iran

Iran’s foreign minister on Friday said that he held discussions with his Russian and Chinese counterparts, without explicitly mentioning potential cooperation with Moscow and China in the war against the US.

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Russia's conscripts recount pressure to fight in Ukraine

The cases show how, amid the war with Ukraine, Russia has hardened its once-avoidable conscription system and the pressure draftees -- officially not sent to war -- come under to sign contracts to fight in Ukraine once inside the military machine.

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Iran’s Araghchi arrives in Russia for high-profile meetings

The Iranian diplomacy chief landed in Saint Petersburg on Monday morning, ahead of a scheduled trip to Moscow.

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Forty years after Chornobyl: A lingering explosion

On the 40th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, The same Russian playbook of lies that was tried out in 1986 on Ukrainian schoolchildren at the May Day parade is today, in 2026, being tried out on young Iraqis, Ukrainian Ambassador to Iraq Ivan Dovhanych writes.

Ivan Dovhanych

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Russia signals readiness to repatriate ISIS-linked individuals from Iraq

Many countries have refused to repatriate citizens that traveled to fight with the Islamic State (ISIS), leaving them facing an uncertain future in detention camps in the Middle East

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Iraq to hand largest Russian-operated oil field to US company 

West Qurna 2, one of the world’s largest oil fields, is 75 percent owned by Lukoil, a Russian firm that was the target of US sanctions in August. Washington accused the company of helping finance Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Iran, Russia mull expansion of Bushehr nuclear plant amid US talks

In September, Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion agreement to construct nuclear power plants in southeastern Iran.

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Iraq acts to curb recruitment of citizens into Russian military

Iraqi officials say that roughly 5,000 Iraqi citizens have volunteered to fight for Russia in its ongoing war with Ukraine.

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From Halabja to Ukraine: The same criminal signature

The scourge of chemical weapons, whose appalling effects linger in the Kurdish memory following the Baathist regime's Halabja massacre, remains a potent present-day threat deployed by Russian invaders in Ukraine, writes Ukrainian Ambassador to Iraq Ivan Dovhanych.

Ivan Dovhanych

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