WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Israeli troops on alert after Hezbollah threat: radio

Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)

Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon were on high alert Wednesday night after Hezbollah threatened action over what it said was an Israeli air raid, arm...

Jordan warns of review of peace deal with Israel

Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)

Jordan warned Wednesday that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem's sensitiv...

Chinese group sues Japan companies over forced war labour

Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)

A group of almost 40 Chinese citizens filed suit in a Beijing court Wednesday demanding compensation from two Japanese companies for forced wartime labour, thei...

Japan mulls revision of 'comfort women' apology

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

Japan will consider revising an apology for its wartime system of sex slavery, a top official said Monday, a move that will draw fury in South Korea and beyond ...

Colombia investigates Santos email hacking

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

Colombian prosecutors Monday opened an investigation after President Juan Manuel Santos said more than 1,000 of his personal emails had been hacked, as spying a...

Israel's Netanyahu 'concerned' over Iran nuclear talks

Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday expressed concern Sunday at the progress of talks between world powers and Iran, saying that Tehran still sough...

Suicide car bomb kills three at Lebanon army post

Feb 22, 2014 (AFP)

A massive suicide car bomb targeting an army checkpoint in the eastern Lebanese town of Hermel near war-torn Syria killed two soldiers and a civilian on Saturda...

Top Islamist among dead as Libya plane crashes in Tunisia

Feb 21, 2014 (AFP)

A medical plane carrying a former jihadist turned member of Libya's first transitional government crashed south of Tunis early Friday, killing all 11 on board, ...

Kerry peace proposals 'unacceptable': Palestinian source

Feb 21, 2014 (AFP)

Ideas proposed by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas cannot "serve as the basis for a framework accord" with Israel, a Pales...

Fighting rages in northeast Damascus: monitor

Feb 21, 2014 (AFP)

Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group s...

Kerry in 'constructive' Paris talks with Abbas

Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry held "constructive" talks in Paris with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas meeting twice in less than 24 hours, a US official s...

Kerry discusses Middle East peace in Paris talks

Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he seeks progress in his quest for a Middle East peace deal. The top U...

Denmark 'cautiously optimistic' over Syria chemical weapons

Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)

Denmark's premier, whose country is a key player in an international operation to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal, said Wednesday she was "cautiously optimisti...

Abbas: Core peace issues must be in line with intl law

Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday that all issues in the US-led peace negotiations with Israel, notably the refugee question, must be solved in li...

Kerry, Abbas to meet Wednesday in Paris

Feb 17, 2014 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris Wednesday to discuss peace talks with Israel, US and Palestinian official...

Syria army, rebels agree new Damascus area truce

Feb 17, 2014 (AFP)

Syria's army and rebels have agreed local truces in key flashpoints around Damascus, despite regime and opposition representatives failing to make any progress ...

Palestinians won't 'flood Israel' with refugees: Abbas

Feb 16, 2014 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday he was not looking "to flood Israel" with returning Palestinian refugees, at a rare meeting with 250 Israeli stud...

Syrian foes admit 'no progress' in peace talks

Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)

Syria's warring sides on Friday admitted there was "no progress" in breaking through the deadlock in their faltering peace process, as doubts increased that int...

Nanjing seeks UNESCO listing for massacre documents

Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)

Documents related to the Nanjing Massacre are being submitted for inclusion on a UNESCO list by authorities in the Chinese city, state media reported Thursday, ...

Greenpeace urges more openness on Syria arsenal cleanup

Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)

Greenpeace's Greek chapter on Wednesday urged more transparency in a UN-led operation to dismantle Syria's chemical arsenal at sea in the eastern Mediterranean ...