WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

What do the Israelis and Palestinians want?

Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)

The decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict has returned to the spotlight after a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements and a major speech by US Secretar...

Syria army, opposition confirm nationwide truce

Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)

Syria's army said Thursday it would halt all military operations from midnight under a truce deal brokered by Russia and Turkey and supported by a leading Syria...

Air strikes kill 22 civilians in eastern Syria: monitor

Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)

Air strikes carried out by unidentified aircraft killed at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, in a village held by the Islamic State group in eastern Sy...

Japan hails Pearl Harbor visit while bracing for Trump

Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)

Japanese on Wednesday hailed a historic visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Pearl Harbor, praising his message of reconciliation with the United States but wa...

Kerry's Middle East peace framework

Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)

There was little new in US Secretary of State John Kerry's outline for measures to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians presented Wednesday. B...

Kerry to offer US vision of Israel-Palestinian peace Wednesday

Dec 27, 2016 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry will offer a "comprehensive vision" of how to revive the Israel-Palestinian peace process in a major speech on Wednesday. Presi...

88 dead in Turkish raids on IS-held Syria town

Dec 23, 2016 (AFP)

At least 88 civilians have been killed in 24 hours of Turkish air strikes on an Islamic State group bastion in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Friday. A...

4,000 rebels leave Aleppo in 'last stages' of evacuation

Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)

More than 4,000 fighters left rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the Red Cross said Thursday, in the "last stages" of an evacuation clearing the way for Syria's army t...

Recent US strikes killed 28 'terrorists' in Yemen

Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)

Nine US air strikes have killed 28 "terrorists" in Yemen since late September, the Pentagon said Thursday. The US military's Central Command said the strikes ta...

Fall of Aleppo shines harsh light on UN

Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)

The warning from the UN envoy could not have been starker: Pounded by a near-daily barrage of air strikes, Aleppo would be totally destroyed by Christmas unless...

Syria army urges remaining rebels to leave Aleppo

Dec 20, 2016 (AFP)

Syria's army on Tuesday urged the last remaining rebels and civilians to leave the bombed-out eastern quarters of Aleppo, a military source told AFP. "The army ...

Saudi coalition says UK-made cluster bombs used in Yemen

Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Monday said it had made "limited use" of British-made cluster bombs, a type of weapon which 100 countries have pled...

Two Colombian soldiers killed in alleged ELN rebel attack

Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)

Two soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack the Colombian army has blamed on guerrillas with the National Liberation Army (ELN). The soldiers, who were on a mo...

Thousands leave Aleppo under landmark evacuation deal

Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)

Thousands of traumatised Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo on Monday under a complex evacuation agreement that will see regime forces exert full control ...

Turkey denies secret 'Syria bargain' with Russia

Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)

Turkey on Monday denied it had forged any secret "bargain" with Russia over the future of Syria, despite improving cooperation that led to a deal for evacuation...

NATO chief defends decision to stay out of Syrian war

Dec 18, 2016 (AFP)

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Sunday defended the alliance's decision to refrain from stepping into the war in Syria, saying doing so would only make matters wors...

Thousands in desperate wait for evacuation from Aleppo

Dec 17, 2016 (AFP)

Trapped Syrian civilians and rebels waited desperately Saturday for evacuations to resume from an opposition-held enclave in Aleppo as the Red Cross pleaded for...

Colombia's slow action on peace deal leaving 'power vacuum', UN warns

Dec 16, 2016 (AFP)

The UN warned Friday that Colombia was moving too slowly in implementing its peace accord with leftist FARC rebels, which resulted in a "power vacuum" that coul...

UK 'doesn't see a future' for Assad in Syria: defence minister

Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)

Bashar al-Assad has no future as president of Syria even if he overpowers rebel fighters in the stricken city of Aleppo, British defence minister Michael Fallon...

Syria rebels announce new evacuation deal for Aleppo

Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)

Syrian rebels announced a new evacuation deal for Aleppo civilians and the injured on Wednesday, after shelling and air strikes sent terrified residents running...