WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Algiers okays French strikes in Mali after rebel 'betrayal'

Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)

Traditionally hostile to foreign interference, Algiers has thrown its support behind operations in Mali against Islamist forces in a surprise about-turn that sa...

Colombia pushes for more momentum in peace talks

Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)

Colombia's government wants to pick up the pace of its peace negotiations with Marxist FARC rebels, the chief government negotiator said Sunday ahead of the con...

EU to propose peace plan after Israel vote: report

Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)

The European Union is drawing up a detailed new plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and expects to present it after this month's Israeli general el...

Syria war boost jihadist threat in Lebanon

Jan 13, 2013 (UPI)

Syria's increasingly sectarian civil war has given impetus to the rapid growth of Sunni Muslim jihadists in Lebanon, a powder keg of sectarian passions, embolde...

France extends airstrikes to Islamist heartlands in Mali

Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)

French forces on Sunday carried out airstrikes in Mali for a third straight day and extended their bombing campaign to the northern strongholds of Islamist forc...

Colombian government, rebels to resume peace talks

Jan 12, 2013 (AFP)

Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels resume peace talks in Cuba on Monday after a three-week break, under pressure to show results in the coming months...

Nigerian sends air force technical team, commander to Mali

Jan 12, 2013 (AFP)

Nigeria has sent an air force technical team and the commander of a planned African-led force to Mali to assist the country's military as it battles Islamists, ...

Myanmar's leader lauds army role in Kachin conflict

Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)

Myanmar's president has defended the army's response to the ethnic Kachin rebellion, state media reported on Friday, despite a recent escalation of violence tha...

US focused on Syria's chemical arms after Assad: Panetta

Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)

The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria's chemical weapons if President Bashar al-Assad falls from power, Defense Secretary Leon Panett...

Myanmar denies using chemical weapons on rebels

Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)

Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it had used chemical weapons against ethnic minority rebels in the northern state of Kachin, where an escalating conflict...

Syria warplanes try to dislodge rebels from military airbase

Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)

Regime warplanes launched air raids Thursday on a military airbase in northwest Syria to try to dislodge rebels who have seized more than half of the compound a...

Israeli, US defense chiefs discuss Middle East issues

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak met Wednesday for a meeting that underscored a "strong US commitment to Israel's securi...

Four Polish soldiers re-tried in Afghan war crimes case

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

Four Polish soldiers, accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan, on Wednesday faced the first day of a re-trial after Poland's Supreme Court last year ove...

Outside View: Thailand's southern insurgency turns up the heat

Jan 09, 2013 (UPI)

While all eyes are on Bangkok's intense, domestic political contest, two shocking Thai insurgent attacks in mid-December slipped through the news causing little...

Two dead in West Bank as Mideast battered by hail, snow

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

Two women were found dead in the West Bank Wednesday after their car was swept away in floods brought by a storm that for days has blasted the Middle East with ...

Syrian refugees in Jordan battle winter storms

Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)

Thousands of Syrian refugees in northern Jordan have appealed for help after three days of winter storms left them battling mud, water and plummeting temperatur...

'Stampede' hurts Jordan aid workers helping Syrian refugees

Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)

Humanitarian workers distributing aid to Syrian refugees in northern Jordan after destructive rains were injured in a "stampede" on Tuesday, officials said. "Re...

Iran, Syria, not settlements, threaten world: Israel PM

Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)

Iran's nuclear ambitions and Syria's chemical weapons are the real threats facing the world, not Israeli settlement building, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Nine Assam youths killed in Indian tribal fighting

Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)

The Assam state government is urging the federal Indian government to send more paramilitary security forces to the region in the wake of tribal clashes that le...

Pentagon nominee vows 'total support' for Israel

Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)

Chuck Hagel, bracing for a bruising Senate confirmation as the next US defense secretary, pledged Monday "total support" for Israel after lawmakers criticized h...