WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Dec 27, 2013 (UPI)

Yemen is grabbing sensational headlines again, this time over a controversial Dec. 12 drone attack that killed 14 civilians. Detractors say the target was a wed...

Japan PM Abe to visit Yasukuni war shrine

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to visit Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday morning, his office said. "The office is aware t...

Truce near Damascus broken as warplanes bomb Aleppo

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

A day-old truce in a besieged rebel-held town near Damascus broke down Thursday as Syrian warplanes bombed the divided northern city of Aleppo for a 12th straig...

Gunmen kill three Yemeni soldiers

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Gunmen killed three soldiers in an attack on an army checkpoint in Yemen's restive southeast Thursday, a military official told AFP. Several other soldiers were...

Israel says to free Palestinians, build more settlements

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Israel will announce plans for new settlement construction next week, coinciding with the release of a third batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of peace tal...

Egypt army says it foiled Hamas Sinai attack

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

The Egyptian army said Wednesday it had foiled a plan by Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to attack a strategic security building in North Sinai, where milit...

Middle East Christians being 'massacred': Anglican leader

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

Christians in the Middle East are being "attacked and massacred" and driven into exile, the leader of the world's Anglicans said Wednesday in his first Christma...

Jerusalem patriarch urges 'just' Israel-Palestinian solution

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem called on Tuesday for a "just and equitable solution" to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for reconciliation in...

Syria air strikes kill 15 in hard-hit Aleppo

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

Syrian air strikes killed 15 people, including three children, in Aleppo Tuesday, as the regime pressed a blistering 10-day bombing campaign that has killed hun...

Palestinian sniper wounds Israel civilian: army

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

A Palestinian sniper shot and wounded an Israeli civilian on Tuesday as he repaired the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the army said. The milit...

Aleppo bombing kills hundreds, threatening Syria talks

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign on Aleppo, with the opposition National Coalition saying Monday it will not att...

Egypt army says 184 'terrorists' killed in Sinai

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

Egypt's army said Monday that, since August, it has killed 184 "terrorists" in North Sinai, where militants have carried out nearly daily attacks against securi...

New air strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill, wound dozens

Dec 22, 2013 (AFP)

Syria warplanes bombed the divided northern city of Aleppo, killing and wounding dozens of people Sunday, while a car bomb in Homs killed at least eight, includ...

No deal on Iran's role at looming Syria peace talks

Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)

Negotiators failed Friday to reach an agreement on whether Iran should be invited to Syria peace talks in Switzerland next month, but Tehran is not yet "off the...

Bloodshed, settlements hike pressure on Mideast talks

Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)

The struggling Middle East peace talks have come under further pressure after Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pr...

Philippines in 25-day Christmas truce with leftist rebels

Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)

Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday suspended military operations against leftist rebels for 25 days, giving them free passage to visit their homes an...

US deploys 45 troops to South Sudan: White House

Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)

The United States has deployed 45 troops to protect US personnel and assets in South Sudan, amid intensifying fighting between rebels and government forces, the...

Report: Israel gets ready for 'short, sharp war' against Hezbollah

Dec 19, 2013 (UPI)

Israeli generals are preparing for a decisive -- and probably brief -- war against Hezbollah, one of Israel's most implacable foes, with plans to smash the Iran...

S.Korea to return remains of Chinese war dead

Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)

South Korea will repatriate the remains of more than 400 Chinese soldiers who were killed during the Korean War some 60 years ago, military officials said Thurs...

Philippines, leftist rebels to observe Christmas truce

Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)

The Philippine military and one of Asia's last communist guerrilla groups said Wednesday they are to call an informal truce over Christmas, bringing some peace ...