WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Spain under bombs: 'testing ground' for WWII

Jul 15, 2016 (AFP)

Teenager Angel Bertran had just gone out to work in fields of hazelnut trees when Spain's civil war burst into his small town with the arrival of Nazi bomber pl...

US-Russia cooperation in Syria must help end Assad rule

Jul 14, 2016 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia warned Thursday that any military cooperation between the United States and Russia in Syria must help advance a political transition to end the war...

Russian strike kills reporter in Syria: Jazeera

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

Al-Jazeera news channel said one of its freelance reporters in northern Syria was killed Monday in an air strike by Russian forces supporting President Bashar a...

FARC peace deal success hangs on referendum: Colombia negotiator

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

A peace deal being negotiated with FARC rebels will ultimately be determined by a referendum previously mooted by the Colombian government, the official leading...

Germany, Turkey airbase row flares after 'genocide' vote

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

Germany on Monday insisted its lawmakers had the right to visit an airbase in Turkey despite Ankara's opposition, in an escalating row between the NATO partners...

FARC rebels injured in 'combat' with Colombian army: minister

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

FARC rebels in Colombia have clashed with government forces in the center of the country, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said Sunday, as the two sides pu...

Yemen's Hadi threatens to boycott peace talks

Jul 10, 2016 (AFP)

Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi threatened Sunday to boycott peace talks with Iran-backed rebels if the UN envoy insists on a roadmap stipulating a unit...

From Guernica to slavery, Spanish vet recalls war horrors

Jul 10, 2016 (AFP)

Luis Ortiz Alfau was 19 and working at a food warehouse when Spain's civil war began in 1936, as General Francisco Franco led an uprising against a democratical...

80 years ago, Spain plunged into civil war

Jul 10, 2016 (AFP)

Eighty years ago, civil war broke out in Spain, a painful, bloody wound that has yet to heal. A dark prelude to World War II, the conflict unleashed passions ar...

Over 60 civilians killed in north Syria: monitor

Jul 09, 2016 (AFP)

More than 60 civilians were killed by shelling and air strikes in the northwest of Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said, hours before the end of a shaky cea...

Sri Lanka aims to demilitarise island by 2018

Jul 06, 2016 (AFP)

Sri Lanka intends to become completely demilitarised by 2018, the government said Wednesday, a significant announcement that will end the army's involvement in ...

Syrian army announces 72-hour nationwide ceasefire

Jul 06, 2016 (AFP)

The Syrian army said Wednesday it was observing a 72-hour ceasefire across the country, in an announcement coinciding with the festival marking the end of the I...

Colombia FARC rebels stop levying 'tax' in peace drive

Jul 05, 2016 (AFP)

Colombia's FARC rebel force says it has halted recruiting fighters and demanding money from civilians as it works towards a historic peace deal with the governm...

Israel bombs Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire

Jul 02, 2016 (AFP)

Israeli air strikes hit four sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, causing damage but no injuries, officials said, after Palestinian militants fired a rocket tha...

Syria air raids kill 25 civilians: monitor

Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)

Separate air raids in northern Syria by regime aircraft and warplanes of the US-led international coalition killed at least 25 civilians on Friday, a monitoring...

Two 'senior' IS military leaders killed in Iraq strike: Pentagon

Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)

A coalition air strike near the Islamic State bastion of Mosul in Iraq has killed two of the jihadist group's senior military leaders, the Pentagon said Friday....

Yemen peace talks to take two-week break: UN envoy

Jun 29, 2016 (AFP)

Yemen's warring parties are taking a two-week break in peace talks, the UN special envoy said on Wednesday, after more than two months of negotiations that made...

Yemen clashes, air strikes kill 80 including 37 civilians

Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)

Intensified fighting and air strikes over the past 24 hours in Yemen have left 80 people dead, including 37 civilians, as lengthy peace talks in Kuwait made no ...

IS gone but some Fallujans shun return to 'cursed city'

Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)

When her five-year-old son asked her to kill him because he was too hungry, Umm Issam knew she would never come back to Fallujah if she was able to leave. Iraqi...

Israel revokes policy on preventing capture of soldiers at all costs

Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)

Israel's army chief has revoked a decades-old directive that allowed troops to use massive firepower to prevent soldiers being captured alive, the army said Tue...