WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Air strike kills at least 15 at Yemen displaced camp

Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)

An air strike killed at least 15 people at a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen on Monday, aid workers said, as Arab warplanes bombard rebels around t...

Oil prices down in Asian trade

Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)

Oil prices eased in Asia Monday but analysts said losses were tempered by supply concerns in the crude-rich Middle East after Saudi-led warplanes struck rebel t...

UN staff flee war-torn Yemen, Russia voices concern

Mar 29, 2015 (AFP)

The United Nations evacuated staff from war-torn Yemen as Russia warned Saudi-led air strikes on Iranian-backed rebels were affecting crunch nuclear talks betwe...

Arab strikes on rebels hit Yemen's main airport

Mar 29, 2015 (AFP)

Saudi-led warplanes bombed Yemen's main international airport and struck a renegade troop base in the capital, as Arab leaders vowed Sunday to pummel Iranian-ba...

Saudi strikes Yemen rebels as Iran warns of 'dangerous step'

Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Huthi Shiite rebels Thursday in support of Yemen's embattled president, who headed to an Arab summit to garner suppo...

Saudi-led raids on Yemen rebels 'successful': coalition

Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)

The first wave of Saudi-led air raids against Shiite rebels in Yemen was "successful", the coalition said Thursday, vowing to press on with the intervention unt...

Yemen leader taken to 'secure location' as rebels advance

Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)

Yemen's leader was rushed to a "secure location" Wednesday as rebel forces bore down on his southern stronghold and a warplane attacked his presidential complex...

Syria's Assad fires two spy chiefs: security source

Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fired two top intelligence chiefs after a fight between the two officials, a high-ranking security source in Damascus told ...

Israel army launches Gaza school shelling probe

Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)

The Israeli army has launched an investigation into the shelling of a UN school in the Gaza Strip while dismissing several other allegations of misconduct durin...

Netanyahu denies abandoning two-state solution

Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied making a U-turn by saying he would never agree to the creation of a Palestinian state, arguing that...

Proud Turkey marks centenary of WW1 Gallipoli victory

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

Turkey on Wednesday marked 100 years since the start of the Gallipoli Campaign by the Allies in World War I, an event seen now as a glorious victory by Ottoman ...

Mine-infested Colombia to begin removal in weeks

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

A breakthrough agreement to begin clearing Colombia, one of the most mined countries in the world, of its anti-personnel landmines will be implemented in the co...

Libya general vows to take Benghazi, urges foreign support

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

Libya's new army chief Khalifa Haftar on Monday promised his forces would seize Benghazi from Islamist militias within a month and called for wider support from...

HRW warns cluster bombs used in Libya conflict

Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)

Human Rights Watch warned Sunday of the use of cluster bombs over the past four months in the Libyan conflict between forces of the North African country's riva...

Kerry concedes US must talk to Assad to end Syria war

Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)

The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end the civil war now entering its fifth year, Secretary of State John Kerry c...

Has Bibi outstayed his welcome in the US and Europe?

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

"Anyone But Bibi." It's the rallying cry of opponents battling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday's elections, but also seems to aptly sum up ...

US to decide on Egypt miliary aid 'very soon': Kerry

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Washington will decide "very soon" on freeing military aid to Egypt frozen since the army toppled Islamist p...

Six suspected FARC fighters killed in Colombia

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

Six suspected FARC fighters were killed in military operations in Colombia this week, the army said, at a fragile time when the leftist guerrilla group is condu...

Colombia halts air raids on FARC in boost to peace drive

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

Colombia will stop air raids on Marxist FARC rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos announced -- a major stride in a peace process aimed at ending Lat...

Syria barrel bomb victims face desperate struggle: MSF

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

Civilians maimed in devastating barrel bombings by Syria's regime in the divided city of Aleppo face a dire shortage of surgeons, wheelchairs and artificial lim...