WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Gunmen kill air force officer in Libya's Benghazi: security

Jul 19, 2013 (AFP)

Gunmen have abducted and killed a senior Libyan air force officer in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the country's 2011 armed uprising, a security offic...

Livni: Israel's new peace negotiator

Jul 19, 2013 (AFP)

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni will soon be attempting to break ground in her new capacity of peace negotiator, after agreement on the basis to resume tal...

Syria: Rebel feuding boosts Assad's gains

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

Fighting between jihadist and nationalist rebel groups in Syria's complex civil war is playing into the hands of embattled President Bashar Assad, the dictator ...

US military chief stays mum on Syria advice

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

The US military's top officer declined Thursday to divulge his advice to President Barack Obama on whether America should take military action in Syria, despite...

Warfare was uncommon among hunter-gatherers: study

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

Warfare was uncommon among hunter-gatherers, and killings among nomadic groups were often due to competition for women or interpersonal disputes, researchers in...

Palestinians rebuff US peace talks blueprint

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry was Friday preparing to leave the Middle East as Palestinian leaders rejected his plan to resume the stalled peace talks. The s...

Kerry, Abbas focus on new Mideast peace talks

Jul 17, 2013 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry was holding new talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday in a dogged bid to kick-start the moribund peace pro...

Things change: CIA 'warns Hezbollah of bombing plot'

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

The CIA recently tipped off Hezbollah about a bomb plot, even though the two have been engaged in a feud going back 23 years, Lebanese officials said. On March ...

Kerry in Jordan as regional crises mount

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

Top US diplomat John Kerry met his Jordanian counterpart Tuesday for talks focused on the turmoil in Egypt and Syria as well as his bid to unlock the Middle Eas...

Israeli officials slam new EU settlements directive

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

Israeli officials on Tuesday slammed an EU directive that will bar all 28 member states from dealings with Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, inclu...

Veterans, paratroopers to patrol Russian city after ethnic tensions

Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)

Teams of military veterans say they will help patrol a Russian city rocked by unrest following the slaying of a former paratrooper by a Chechen teenager. Russia...

UK to give Syria rebels protection from chemical weapons

Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)

Britain is to give Syrian opposition fighters equipment to protect them against chemical weapons attacks "as a matter of special urgency", Foreign Secretary Wil...

Kerry heads to Mideast with peace talks on agenda

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Jordan Monday on his sixth trip to the region as he tries to push Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks. In A...

Ex-Shin Bet chief blasts Netanyahu in West Bank

Jul 15, 2013 (UPI)

As John Kerry struggles to breathe life into an expiring Mideast peace process, Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's internal security service, has publicly ch...

Israel PM bars agents from US-China bank case: report

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has bowed to Chinese pressure and barred intelligence officers from testifying in a US lawsuit against the Bank of Chi...

FARC leader says Colombia insurgency near end

Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)

The top negotiator for Colombia's leftist FARC rebel group said Monday he was confident that the nearly 50 year old guerrilla war is almost over. "We understand...

Israel launched strikes near key Syria port: report

Jul 13, 2013 (AFP)

A series of explosions on July 5 near the key Syrian port city of Latakia were the result of Israeli air strikes, CNN reported, citing three US officials. In th...

Iraq cannot stop Iran arms transfer to Syria: FM

Jul 13, 2013 (AFP)

Iraq lacks the means to stop Iranian arms deliveries to Syria through its airspace, if there are any, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in comments pub...

Israel slashes armor, air units in $1.9B defense cuts

Jul 12, 2013 (UPI)

Israel test-fired a new rocket propulsion system Friday as part of its drive to boost its missile capabilities while the military prepared to retire much of the...

Russia attacks West over Syrian chemical arms

Jul 11, 2013 (AFP)

Russia on Thursday accused Western nations of using "naive" allegations of chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government to block a UN investigation into th...