WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Medal for high-tech warriors draws fire from US veterans

Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)

Combat veterans on Friday denounced a new medal for US troops who direct drone strikes or cyber attacks, calling the award an insult to those who risk life and ...

Lebanon arrests 11 armed men including 4 Syrians

Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)

The Lebanese army on Friday said it has arrested 11 men, including four Syrians, for weapons possession in a tense border town that has seen frequent unrest lin...

Dissident Mali army unit to be dispersed by March: official

Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)

An elite army unit loyal to Mali's ousted president that has clashed repeatedly with rival units since his ouster will be dispersed by March, the crisis-torn co...

Colombian guerrillas release two police hostages

Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)

Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the leftist FARC, on Friday released two police officers they had held for three weeks, the International Committee of the R...

Slaying hints Iran hikes backing for Assad

Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)

The reported assassination of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander who was traveling between Beirut and Syria has heightened suspicions Tehran and its powe...

Maldives ex-leader seeks refuge at Indian embassy

Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)

Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed said Wednesday he had taken refuge inside the Indian High Commission in his country's capital after a magistrate orde...

8 years after Hariri, the killing goes on

Feb 13, 2013 (UPI)

As anti-Syrian Lebanese mark the anniversary of the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, allegedly by the pro-Syrian Hezbollah, Hariri's allies still face the th...

Malian coup leader sworn in as head of army reform committee

Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)

The leader of a March coup that ousted Mali's government, exacerbating a crisis in which Islamist rebels went on to seize over half the country, was sworn in We...

Filipino President Aquino visits MILF camp

Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)

In a sign of trust, Philippine President Benigno Aquino visited a Moro Islamic Liberation Front camp. Aquino is the second Filipino president to visit the MILF ...

Outside View: Syria: Strategic or tragic?

Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)

Last week, the Brookings Institution in Washington hosted a session on Syria and the Middle East. The speakers largely agreed that more active engagement by the...

Lebanon grapples with spread of jihadists

Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)

Islamist militant cells linked to al-Qaida appear to be proliferating in Lebanon, spurred in large part by the growing presence and military successes of Sunni ...

Israeli, US defense chiefs hold talks at Pentagon

Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak held talks Tuesday with Pentagon chief Leon Panetta that were expected to focus on the conflict in Syria and on Iran's nucl...

Rebels seize airport as Syria dead nears 70,000

Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)

Rebels on Tuesday overran a military air base and captured warplanes, gaining ground in northern Syria for a second straight day as the UN said the death toll f...

Rebels overrun military airport in north Syria: NGO

Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)

Rebels seized a military airport in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, capturing for the first time a fleet of deployable warplanes including MiG f...

Two killed in Colombia rebel attack: authorities

Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)

Suspected FARC guerrillas killed a policeman and a boy and wounded 27 other people, many of them children, in a grenade and gunfire attack in a town in southern...

Israel's Barak heads to Washington

Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)

Israel's outgoing Defence Minister Ehud Barak left on Monday for Washington on his second such trip in less than a month, the defence ministry said. The visit, ...

U.S. officials accuse Iran of aiding al-Qaida in Syria

Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. officials allege Iranian intelligence is actively helping al-Qaida fighters in Syria, even though the jihadists are battling to bring down Syrian President...

After attacks, Thai PM supports curfew

Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)

Five Thai soldiers were killed Sunday in two attacks blamed on Muslim insurgents, police said. Officials said in addition to the deaths, five others were wounde...

Ex-Libya PM misused public funds: court witness

Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)

Ousted dictator Moamer Kadhafi's last prime minister redirected public funds to support the regime's armed forces during Libya's bloody uprising in 2011, a witn...

Mali Islamists launch their 'long war'

Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)

Islamist militants have mounted a hit-and-run attack against French forces occupying the former jihadist bastion of Gao in what's probably the opening salvo of ...