WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Syria warplanes hit Yabrud near Damascus

Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes carried out 20 air strikes against the strategic rebel-held Yabrud area near Damascus on Wednesday, as the army escalated a campaign there, act...

Obama: Russia to blame if UN Homs resolution fails

Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that Russia would be to blame for keeping aid from desperate Syrian civilians if it blocked a UN resolution designed to...

Warnings of failure as Syria talks deadlocked

Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)

Syria peace talks showed no signs of movement Tuesday, sparking warnings of failure, as the evacuation of civilians from besieged rebel-held areas of Syria's th...

Israel PM to visit US, meet Obama in March

Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington on March 2 where he is to discuss Iran and the peace process with US President Barack Obama, his...

Syria air force strikes Lebanon frontier town: source

Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)

Syria's air force launched two strikes on the outskirts of Lebanon's frontier town of Arsal on Monday, causing no casualties, a Lebanese security source said. T...

Israel's Lieberman fine-tunes new image as a moderate

Feb 09, 2014 (AFP)

Israelis were wondering Sunday if hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's defence of Washington's top diplomat was evidence of a change of heart or just a ...

Egypt military 'kills 16 Sinai militants in air strikes'

Feb 08, 2014 (AFP)

Egypt's military said it killed 16 militants Saturday in air strikes in the restive Sinai peninsula, which jihadists have used as a springboard for attacks acro...

Damascus confirms it will attend next round of peace talks

Feb 07, 2014 (AFP)

Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, said on Friday that Damascus will take part in a second round of peace talks in Geneva due to start on February ...

Syria must speed up removal of chemical weapons: UN

Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)

Syria must move faster to remove its deadly chemical weapons stockpile and meet the June 30 deadline set for destroying its arsenal, the UN Security Council dem...

Colombia rebels accuse ex-president in spying scandal

Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)

Colombia's FARC guerrilla group Wednesday accused former president Alvaro Uribe of being behind alleged spying on peace negotiators by an army intelligence unit...

China furious at Japan NHK manager's Nanjing denial

Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)

China reacted furiously on Wednesday to the denial of the Nanjing massacre by a senior manager at Japan's national broadcaster, calling his remarks "a barefaced...

Weapons stash found at Lebanon home of Syrian: security

Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)

Lebanese troops found a stash of weapons, including Grad rockets and mortar shells, at the home of Syrian man in northern Lebanon Wednesday, a security source t...

'Empire of the Sun' internment camp forgotten in China

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

No public memorial marks the former Shanghai internment camp made famous by JG Ballard's novel "Empire of the Sun", where more than 1,800 foreigners were held b...

Failed peace talks won't bring more violence: Israel

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

The failure of peace talks with the Palestinians would not lead to an increase in violence, the head of Israel's domestic security agency said Tuesday. "Even if...

Colombia probes alleged army spying on peace talks

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday ordered an investigation into allegations an army intelligence unit spied on his negotiators holding peace talks...

NHK manager's Nanjing denial no problem: Japan government

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

A senior NHK manager who denied any massacre at Nanjing during the 1930s did nothing wrong, Japan's government said Tuesday, as another storm brewed over the in...

Peres praises Kerry after attacks by Israeli hawks

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

Israel's President Shimon Peres Tuesday praised John Kerry's peace efforts, after Israeli hawks attacked the top US diplomat for warning of the growing boycott ...

Libya says Kadhafi regime's chemical weapons all destroyed

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

Libya has completely destroyed the chemical arsenal it inherited from Moamer Kadhafi, 10 years after the now slain dictator signed the Chemical Weapons Conventi...

Israeli ministers harangue Kerry over boycott remark

Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry came under further attack Monday by Israeli hawks who accuse him of manipulating the threat of an economic boycott to pressure ...

FARC urges pact on 'humanitarian' norms with Colombia

Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)

The FARC rebel group called Monday for a pact with the Colombian government on humanitarian conduct, as the two sides pursue an end to their half-century confli...