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Can Mecca Defense Alliance reshape security from Middle East to Caucasus?

Can Mecca Defense Alliance reshape security from Middle East to Caucasus?

The newly established defense partnership between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is already showing signs of evolving beyond its original three-member format, raising questions over what kind of security architecture could emerge across the Muslim world, and whether Azerbaijan could eventually become part of it.

Armenia’s ‘Fourth Republic’: real break with past or new political narrative?

Armenia’s ‘Fourth Republic’: real break with past or new political narrative?

Over the past week, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced what he described as the country’s new “Fourth Republic,” presenting a new constitution as the institutional foundation of a political era built around peace rather than conflict. But how reachable is that idea? And what does it say about Armenia's political landscape in broader implications?

Ukraine ramps up production of high-speed Shahed interceptors, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine ramps up production of high-speed Shahed interceptors, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine has manufacturers capable of producing interceptors against jet-powered Shahed drones, and accelerating their production is currently a priority, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

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