WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Colombia rebels demand rural demilitarization, reparations

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Leftist FARC rebels on Tuesday pressed for a "demilitarization" of the Colombian state and reparations for the rural poor, during the latest session of peace ta...

In Syrian shadow, Iraq jihadists resurgent

Mar 19, 2013 (UPI)

A recent surge in bombings by al-Qaida in Iraq against the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is starting to look like an extension o...

Syria accuses rebels of deadly chemical attack

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Syria accused rebels of using chemical weapons in an attack on Tuesday that killed 25 people, but the opposition denied the claim, saying instead regime forces ...

NDIA and Earned Value Management

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

The National Defense Industrial Association, or NDIA, Program Management Systems Committee (PMSC) plays a central role in defining earned value management withi...

Mali media to continue strike over journalist jailing

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Mali's media announced on Tuesday they would continue a boycott of government coverage in protest over the detention of a journalist who published a letter crit...

For Israel, Golan looms as war front again

Mar 18, 2013 (UPI)

Tension is growing along Israel's northern border with Syria, for 40 years the quietest of the Jewish state's frontiers, amid indications jihadist rebels are in...

German defence minister urges Mali troops to ensure security

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere on a visit to Mali Monday stressed that it was up to the Malian army to ensure security in the nation, after French a...

Syria opposition to choose PM as regime planes 'bomb Lebanon'

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's opposition coalition met in Istanbul to choose its first prime minister on Monday, as Syrian warplanes bombed northern Lebanon for the first time in wha...

Israel's new defence minister champion of settlers

Mar 17, 2013 (AFP)

Israel's new Defence Minister Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon is a military veteran and staunch rightwinger known for his support of the Jewish settler movement, but who ...

Syria 'expanding' cluster munitions use; Top general defects

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's regime are expanding its use of cluster munitions in its conflict with rebel forces, causing "mounting civilian causalities," Human Rights Watch warned ...

The Malian army's 'iron fist': no African GI Jane

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

Dressed in sunglasses and a beige headscarf during a tour of the war-torn northern city of Gao, the Malian army's "iron fist" would not welcome the inevitable c...

Obama coming 'to listen' to Israel, Palestinians

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama said Thursday his forthcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories was to "listen" to both sides and hear their views on how...

Syria plans to use chemical arms: Israel intel chief

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Israel's military intelligence chief on Thursday said the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has contingency plans to use chemical weapons as it battles...

Syrian power balance to tilt towards rebels: think tank

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

The balance of power in Syria will eventually shift to rebel forces but a protracted civil war risks destabilising the whole region, a leading think-tank warned...

Canada extends Mali airlift but cool on peacekeeping

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Canada's prime minister on Thursday appeared reluctant to supply troops for a Mali peacekeeping force but extended a loan of a jumbo jet to France to ferry mili...

Abbas tells Putin that Palestinians want peace talks

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday he hoped to establish peace talks with Israel later this year while admitting ...

Syria: West moves toward arming rebels

Mar 14, 2013 (UPI)

The United States, Britain and France, key powers in the 2011 Libyan intervention that toppled Moammar Gadhafi, are pressing for greater support for rebels batt...

France, Britain to arm Syria rebels 'even without EU support'

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

France and Britain are ready to arm Syrian rebels even without unanimous EU support, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday. Paris and London will...

Paris, London to arm Syria rebels even without EU support

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

France and Britain are prepared to arm Syrian rebels even without unanimous EU support, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday. Paris and London w...

Syrian air force, vital for regime, sags

Mar 13, 2013 (UPI)

Syrian warplanes have been bombing the northern cities of Homs and Raqqa, and even the outskirts of Damascus, to block advancing rebel forces, attacks that unde...