WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

11 children killed in Syria bombardments: watchdog

Dec 30, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian troops bombarded rebel bastions near the capital on Sunday a day after at least 32 civilians including 11 children were killed by air strikes and artille...

US should play proactive role in Mideast: Arab League chief

Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Saturday called on US President Barack Obama to be proactive in ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his forthcoming t...

Two more generals defect to Turkey

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Two Syrian air force generals have defected from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and joined opposition forces in Turkey, a diplomat said on Friday. The ...

Abbas warns of disbanding PA if no peace talks

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned Thursday that he would disband his Palestinian Authority if there was no Israeli movement toward renewing peace talks ...

Israeli-Palestinian talks only after Abbas goes: Lieberman

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

The head of Israel's ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, ex-foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, lashed out Friday against Palestinian president Mahmud Abba...

Syrian warplanes raid Damascus province

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes launched air raids in Damascus province on Friday after overnight bombardments and clashes across the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Syria rebels attack key army base

Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian rebels attacked a key army base in the northwest province of Idlib on Friday, the last regime bastion in the region, and regime warplanes launched air ra...

'Stormin Norman' Schwarzkopf dead at 78

Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)

Norman Schwarzkopf, the US general who led Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1991, died on Thursday at the ag...

Syria military police chief defects to opposition

Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)

Syria's military police chief has announced his defection from President Bashar al-Assad's regime, accusing the army of having turned into "murderous gangs," in...

Air raids pound rebels near Damascus: watchdog

Dec 24, 2012 (AFP)

Warplanes carried out several strikes on Monday on rebel-held areas in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, where fresh clashes pitting insurgents and troops ...

Air strike 'kills 60' as peace envoy Brahimi in Syria

Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)

More than 60 people were killed in a regime air strike on a bakery in a rebel-held town on Sunday, monitors said, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi launched a new ...

Turkey lifts veto on NATO cooperation with Israel

Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)

NATO member Turkey has agreed to lift its veto on non-military cooperation between the alliance and Israel which it imposed over a deadly raid on a Turkish aid ...

Colombia peace negotiators take a holiday break

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

The Colombian government and the country's FARC rebels took a three-week break from peace talks on Friday, saying in a joint statement that negotiations will re...

Research finds crisis in Syria has Mesopotamian precedent

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Research carried out at the University of Sheffield has revealed intriguing parallels between modern day and Bronze-Age Syria as the Mesopotamian region underwe...

Syria 'firing Scud-style missiles,' Palestinians return

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

The Syrian regime has fired Scud-style missiles at rebels, NATO said Friday, as Russia raised the alarm over the risk of chaos in Syria and Palestinians forced ...

Philippine rebels call for Aquino 'alliance'

Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)

Communist rebels said Thursday they have called for an "alliance" with Philippine President Benigno Aquino to undertake programmes aimed at ending a long insurg...

Yemen president sacks Saleh's military cronies

Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)

President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has dramatically restructured Yemen's military to curb the influence of those linked to toppled strongman Abdullah Ali Saleh with...

Philippines, communists agree to new talks and ceasefire

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

Maoist guerrillas waging a decades-long insurgency in the Philippines have resumed high-level peace talks with the government after a 13-month impasse, it was a...

UN, Europe, Russia warn Israel over settlements

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

The United Nations and all UN Security Council powers except the United States on Wednesday condemned Israel's heightened settler construction in the Palestinia...

Yemen's Hadi restructures army, removes Saleh cronies: TV

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi announced on Wednesday the restructuring of the army and defence ministry, purging them of relatives and cronies of former...