WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Rebels seize strategic town in eastern Syria: watchdog

Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)

Rebel fighters seized the town of Mayadeen in eastern Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said, adding that a large area on the Syrian-Iraqi border is now und...

Celebrations, recriminations as Gaza truce holds

Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli politicians on Thursday returned to the campaign trail as the streets of Gaza came back to life after a truce ended eight days of bloodshed, with both s...

Nepal stages symbolic funeral rites for fallen Gurkhas

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Veterans of Britain's Gurkha brigade lit candles and burned incense on Wednesday to mark the deaths of 60,000 Nepalese soldiers who they say have been forgotten...

Outside View: Shot heard round the world

Nov 21, 2012 (UPI)

"The shot heard round the world" is a reference to events at Lexington, Mass., of April 19, 1775. The American militia fired on British troops and began the Ame...

Dozens of casualties in air raid on Syria's Aleppo: NGO

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes on Wednesday bombarded a rebel-held district of the city of Aleppo, causing dozens of casualties, as soldiers repelled an attack on a nearby ar...

Australia pulls bulk of troops from East Timor

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Australia said Wednesday it was pulling hundreds of troops out of East Timor, ending a six-year operation to support peace in Asia's youngest nation. Defence Mi...

Iran speaker confirms military aid to Hamas

Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)

Iran has supplied military aid to the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza locked in a conflict with Israel during which it has fired missiles at Tel Aviv for the first...

Gaza rocket fire kills Israeli soldier

Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)

An Israeli soldier was killed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, on the seventh day of a major conflict in and around the Palestinian enclave, a mil...

New Israeli strike kills six in Gaza City

Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)

An Israeli air strike on Gaza City killed six people on Tuesday, raising the day's toll to 14, the Hamas health ministry said. "Six people were killed and two o...

Indian Maoists facing ammunition shortages

Nov 19, 2012 (UPI)

CPI (Maoist) guerrillas operating in 83 districts in nine Indian states are facing ammunition shortages, the government said. Sources in the State Intelligence ...

New Israel strike on Gaza kills 3, pushes toll to 80

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

Three people were killed early Monday morning in new Israeli air strikes on Gaza, pushing the death toll in six days of violence to 80 Palestinians, health offi...

Turkey to ask for NATO support on border with Syria

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

NATO said Monday it would urgently consider a request from Ankara to deploy Patriot missiles along Turkey's troubled border with Syria as the EU announced its r...

Gaza death toll nears 100 as truce efforts build

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli air strikes killed 22 Palestinians on Monday, hiking the Gaza death toll to 99 as global efforts to broker a truce to end the worst violence in four yea...

Israel mulls ground campaign with Cast Lead in mind

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

Not long after US elections, and just weeks before Israelis went to the polls, persistent rocket fire from Gaza pushed Israel into a major air campaign which ev...

Gaza: Invasion fears as Israel escalates

Nov 19, 2012 (UPI)

Signs were growing Monday that Israel is preparing to unleash a major ground offensive against the Gaza Strip as airstrikes pounded Palestinian targets and army...

Gazans search desperately for safe place under fire

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

Every time six-year-old Mohammed hears the sound of Israeli missiles landing near his home in Gaza City, he turns to his mother and asks: "When are we going to ...

Colombia's FARC rebels declare ceasefire as talks begin

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

Colombia's leftist FARC rebels declared a unilateral two-month ceasefire Monday as they began talks in Cuba with the Bogota government on ending Latin America's...

China backs calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)

China backed calls Tuesday for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza conflict and urged the UN Security Council and the international community to bring peace to t...

21 years on, Croatia remembers bloody fall of Vukovar

Nov 18, 2012 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of Croatians gathered in the eastern city of Vukovar Sunday to commemorate one of the bloodiest episode of the Balkan nation's 1990s war for i...

Erdogan says Israel will be held to account for Gaza

Nov 17, 2012 (AFP)

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Israel would be held to account for the children among 40 people dead in three days of air str...