WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Assad reshuffles cabinet, warplanes raid Damascus

Feb 09, 2013 (AFP)

President Bashar al-Assad reshuffled his cabinet Saturday as regime warplanes raided rebel areas in a bid to end the stalemate in Syria's deadly civil war and h...

First EU military trainers arrive in Mali: French army

Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)

The first group of 70 EU military instructors, deployed to train Mali's deeply divided and underfunded army to take on Islamist rebels, arrived Friday in the ca...

Report: Defense graft plagues Mideast

Feb 08, 2013 (UPI)

Governments and regimes across the Middle East and North Africa, a major arms-buying region, are plagued by military corruption, including weapons deals with ma...

White House defends decision not to arm Syrian rebels

Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)

The White House Friday said it had been motivated by shielding Syrian civilians, Israelis and its own security, when President Barack Obama nixed an administrat...

US defense chiefs defend Benghazi response

Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)

Defense chiefs on Thursday defended the military response to a militant attack on a US mission in Libya, but warned looming deep budget cuts threaten America's ...

Militants attack Algerian barracks: report

Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)

Algerian troops clashed with 50 men armed with rocket-propelled grenades who attacked a barracks in northeast Algeria, leaving six soldiers wounded and two assa...

US defense chiefs backed arming Syria rebels

Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that the Pentagon had backed proposals to arm the Syrian opposition battling to oust ...

Israel-Palestinian talks central to Obama trip: analysts

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Reviving Middle East peace talks will be a key element of Barack Obama's first trip as president, and despite US caution he will seek to build on the centre's s...

Cambodia opens memorial to slain war journalists

Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)

Cambodia on Wednesday unveiled a memorial to dozens of foreign and local journalists who died while covering the 1970-75 war that was won by the communist Khmer...

MNLF calls for end to Moro fighting

Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)

The MNLF head is calling for a halt to fighting between MNLF and Abu Sayyaf insurgents. "It pains me to know that we are fighting against our own people," said ...

Fears grow of new Israeli assault on Gaza amid rocket attacks

Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)

There are growing concerns Israel may soon unleash a punitive operation against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after the military reported a dramatic increase in ro...

French mission has killed hundreds of Islamists: minister

Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)

French-led troops have killed hundreds of Islamist fighters in an operation to reclaim Mali's vast arid north, France's defence minister said Tuesday as its arm...

Obama plans first Israel visit as president

Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)

President Barack Obama plans to soon make his first trip to Israel as US leader to confer on the Iranian nuclear showdown and to soothe his delicate relationshi...

Assad fumes as Israel admits Syria air strike

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Israel has implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike on Syria last week, with President Bashar al-Assad accusing the Jewish state of trying to further destab...

6 children killed in air raid near Damascus: watchdog

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes launched a deadly raid Monday on the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Douma northeast of Damascus, killing seven civilians, among them six c...

Syria opposition head seeks talks with Assad's VP

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's opposition chief urged President Bashar al-Assad on Monday to respond positively to a call for dialogue and to delegate his deputy to end 22 months of w...

Israel 'eyes more airstrikes again Syria'

Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)

Israel's military, which is dropping hints it was behind last week's airstrike on a Syrian chemical weapons facility, is said to be considering more raids, incl...

Israel preparing for post-Assad Syria chaos

Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)

Israel has implicitly confirmed it carried out an air strike in Syria, sparking a warning from Iran, but the Jewish state's next step in anticipation of a post-...

Israel's chief of staff on US visit

Feb 03, 2013 (AFP)

Israeli armed forces chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz on Sunday started a five-day visit to Washington, the army said, with the Syrian conflict and Iran's c...

France bombs Islamist targets in Mali after Hollande visit

Feb 03, 2013 (AFP)

France said it carried out major air strikes Sunday near Kidal, the last bastion of armed extremists chased from Mali's desert north in a lightning French-led o...