WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Israelis alarmed at prospect of 'jihadist tsunami' on borders

Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)

Israel's security chiefs are increasingly concerned about what one analyst terms a "jihadist tsunami" building up around the Jewish state for the first time as ...

Syria opposition cold-shoulders Assad; NATO flexes

Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's domestic opposition on Monday snubbed a call to dialogue from President Bashar al-Assad, as NATO powers challenged the leader's defiant grip on power an...

Assad to speak as US deploys missiles near Syria

Jan 05, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad is to make a rare speech Sunday as violence rages in a civil war the UN says has killed more than 60,000 people and ...

Outside View: U.N. and Syrian refugees

Jan 04, 2013 (UPI)

What does it mean when Bashar Assad's regime bombs the Yarmouk -- Syria's largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood? Driving dozens of formerly pro-government Pa...

Rebels kill relative of Syria security chief: watchdog

Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)

Rebels killed a relative of Syria's political security chief Rustom Ghazali, a key regime figure, wounded another and kidnapped a third on Friday in the souther...

Egypt seizes US-made missiles destined for Gaza

Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)

Egyptian security forces have seized US-made anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles destined for Gaza, where militants have said they would acquire more weapons ...

Myanmar admits to using jet fighters

Jan 04, 2013 (UPI)

A government official admitted that the Myanmar military carried out airstrikes against ethnic rebels in Kachin state after previous government reports denied t...

Commentary: Hagel and the Israeli lobby

Jan 04, 2013 (UPI)

The vicious campaign to smear Chuck Hagel with an anti-Israel brush and deter U.S. President Barack Obama from nominating him to become the next defense secreta...

Myanmar says Kachin air strikes 'self-defence'

Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)

Myanmar said Friday that air strikes targeting ethnic minority rebels in the northern state of Kachin were in self-defence, vowing "maximum restraint" in the fa...

Israel fears third intifada

Jan 03, 2013 (UPI)

Israeli security forces have stirred unrest in the West Bank over recent days by arresting Palestinian activists in what appears to be a campaign to head off a ...

U.N. peacekeepers leave Timor-Leste

Jan 02, 2013 (UPI)

The United Nations ended its peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste after 13 years and the country's struggle for stability after independence in 2002. Police forc...

Dozens killed, wounded in air strike on Syria fuel station

Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)

Dozens of people, including rebels, were killed or wounded in an air strike on a service station southeast of Damascus on Wednesday, many of them horribly burne...

US urges renewed Mideast peace effort in 2013

Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)

The United States Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to resume direct talks in 2013 and move toward peace. "As we turn the calendar to 2013... now ...

Syria conflict kills 60,000, says UN, as clashes rage

Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)

More than 60,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, the UN said on Wednesday, as dozens more died or were wounded when an air strike hit a service ...

Myanmar army uses airstrikes as conflict escalates

Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)

Myanmar's army has used air strikes against northern ethnic rebels, sources from both sides said Wednesday, in an escalation of a conflict that has raised doubt...

Hamas could oust Abbas from W.Bank: Netanyahu

Jan 01, 2013 (AFP)

The militant Islamic Hamas could wrest the West Bank from the western-backed rule of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, just as it did in the Gaza Strip in 200...

Syria ushers in New Year with more violence

Jan 01, 2013 (AFP)

Syrians woke up to air strikes near Damascus on New Year's Day and the closure of Aleppo airport after repeated rebel attacks, casting doubts on efforts to end ...

Peres says Israel would talk to Hamas if it seeks peace

Dec 31, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday that there is no fundamental reason not to talk to the militant Palestinian Hamas if it renounces violence and dec...

Israel must complete peace deal with Abbas: Peres

Dec 30, 2012 (AFP)

President Shimon Peres on Sunday urged Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, saying their president Mahmud Abbas was a willing partner with whom a...

Russia sends landing ships to Syria: report

Dec 30, 2012 (AFP)

A Russian warship carrying a marines unit has left its Black Sea port for Syria amid preparations for a possible evacuation of nationals living and working in t...