WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

China, Russia block UN statement on Myanmar

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

China and Russia blocked a proposed UN Security Council statement on Friday that would have expressed concern over the tense situation in Myanmar's Rakhine stat...

Air strikes on north Syria mosque kill 42: monitor

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

At least 42 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Thursday in air strikes on a village mosque in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Netanyahu: Syria raids targeted 'advanced' Hezbollah arms

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries s...

UAE soldier killed in Yemen war

Mar 16, 2017 (AFP)

The Emirati armed forces said Thursday that one of its soldiers was killed while on duty with the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen for t...

Dozens killed in fresh clashes on Myanmar's China border

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

Raging battles on Myanmar's border with China have claimed dozens more lives, military and official sources said Wednesday, as the mounting death toll landed a ...

Russian, US forces eyeball each other in Syrian city

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

American and Russian troops are now both present in the northern Syrian city of Manbij and can clearly see each other in the former Islamic State stronghold, a ...

Yemen artists paint on walls to protest war

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

A warplane firing missiles. A gunman taking aim. A map of Yemen dripping with blood. A group of Yemeni artists took to the streets Wednesday, painting murals on...

US plans for Syria include another 1,000 troops: US official

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

Up to 1,000 additional US troops could deploy to northern Syria under provisional plans drawn up by the Pentagon, a US defense official told AFP on Wednesday. T...

Syrian force fighting for Raqa is mainly Arab: US official

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

The US-backed Arab-Kurdish alliance leading the offensive to surround and recapture the Islamic State group's main bastion in Syria now comprises mainly Arab fi...

Colombia to set up special war crimes courts

Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)

Colombia's senate late Monday approved a constitutional reform to set up special war crimes courts, a key component of the historic peace agreement with FARC gu...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hang soldier effigies in draft protest

Mar 13, 2017 (AFP)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews opposed to Israeli compulsory military service hung effigies of religious soldiers Monday in a Jerusalem neighbourhood, with police denounci...

Philippines, communists resume peace talks

Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)

The Philippine government agreed Sunday to reinstate a ceasefire with the communists behind one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, despite President R...

Toll in Damascus bombings jumps to 74 dead: monitor

Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)

The toll from twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the centre of Damascus has risen to 74 dead, a monitor said on Sunday. Among the victims of Saturday's ...

Twin Damascus bombs kill 59, mostly Iraqi pilgrims

Mar 11, 2017 (AFP)

Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 59 people in Damascus on Saturday, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said of one of the bloodiest attacks in t...

Air strike kills 26 in Yemen: medics, military sources

Mar 10, 2017 (AFP)

An air strike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said. The aircraft t...

Colombia atrocities ongoing despite peace deal: report

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of Colombians are still suffering rapes, killings and torture and the country will take decades to recover from civil war despite recent peace accords...

More than 20,000 Myanmar refugees enter China

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

More than 20,000 Myanmar refugees have entered China, fleeing areas along the border after violent clashes broke out between the south east Asian country's army...

Turkey PM accuses Greek Cypriot govt of stalling talks

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday accused the Greek Cypriot government of adopting an "aggressive attitude" which he said is undermining UN-bac...

US deploys more troops in Syria, turning up heat on IS

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

The United States turned up the heat on the Islamic State group Thursday, sending an additional 400 US troops into Syria to support an offensive to retake Raqa,...

Israeli rabbi: women joining army become 'non-Jews'

Mar 08, 2017 (AFP)

An Israeli rabbi was fiercely criticised Wednesday for saying women who join the army come back as "non-Jews," in a controversy that coincided with Internationa...