WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Arms blasts kill Hezbollah fighters in east Lebanon

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

Explosions at a Hezbollah weapons cache in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon killed nine people on Wednesday, among them Hezbollah fighters, a security offici...

Clinton vows to answer all questions on Libya attack

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Wednesday to answer lingering questions about last month's deadly attack on a US mission in Libya, seeking to counte...

Lebanon border a new front in Syria's war

Oct 02, 2012 (UPI)

Clashes along Lebanon's border with Syria are growing as the tiny Mediterranean country becomes a battle front in Syria's 18-month-old civil war, with control o...

Iraq searches Syria-bound Iran plane

Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq stopped and searched a Syria-bound Iranian cargo plane for weapons on Tuesday, but allowed it to continue as no prohibited items were found, Iraqi official...

Thailand's Muslim insurgency reignites

Oct 01, 2012 (UPI)

Attacks in Thailand's restive southern Muslim provinces have killed six people and wounded 27. The shooting and bombing attacks occurred in Thailand's southern ...

Peace talks sit uneasily with Colombian military

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Colombia's military officially supports peace talks with its old foe, the leftist FARC guerrilla group, but behind the facade of unity there is uneasiness in th...

Syria rebels claim missiles seized in Damascus

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian rebels claimed on Monday to have seized an undisclosed number of missiles from the army's arsenal in the east of Damascus province. "With the help and gr...

Syria chemical weapons 'great concern': NATO

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles are a "great concern" but the solution to the conflict there remains political, not military, NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen...

Syria: Hezbollah move means Iran's worried

Sep 27, 2012 (UPI)

Hezbollah's reported deployment of "military advisers" in Syria to aid its beleaguered ally, President Bashar Assad, suggests his regime's war against rebels is...

Abbas condemns 'catastrophic' Israeli settlements

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas condemned on Thursday "catastrophic" Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, which he said were killing hopes for a ...

Syria bombs show rebels' striking power

Sep 26, 2012 (UPI)

The double bombing of the Syrian army's general staff headquarters in a heavily guarded quarter of Damascus Wednesday severely jolted the embattled regime of Pr...

West complicit in Syria 'massacres': rebel leader

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

A Syrian rebel commander has accused the West of being complicit in the "unprecedented massacres" committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces by refusing to...

Romney: White House papering over Mideast crises

Sep 25, 2012 (AFP)

Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of trying to "paper over" deadly unrest and crises in the Middle East and failing to stand up to Iran in i...

Syrian children killed ahead of UN briefing

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

Regime warplanes struck rebel positions in Aleppo Monday, killing three children, as insurgents claimed to control most of Syria ahead of a UN Security Council ...

Russia's Chechen war mastermind Grachev dies at 64

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

Russia's brutal 1994-1996 Chechen campaign mastermind and former defence minister Pavel Grachev died in Moscow on Sunday at the age of 64 after a highly divisiv...

Syria, Iran nuclear fears, Muslim protests cloud UN summit

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

War in Syria, mounting tensions over Iran's nuclear drive and anti-Western protests across the Muslim world will cast a shadow over the annual UN gathering of w...

Rebel command moves to Syria in sign of confidence

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

The rebel Free Syrian Army's decision to move its command centre from Turkey to "liberated areas" inside Syria shows its growing confidence despite the risk of ...

Tunisia president ex-advisor gets suspended jail term

Sep 22, 2012 (AFP)

A former advisor to Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki was handed a four-month suspended jail term for defaming the army and its commanders, he said on Saturday...

Syria army deserters freed from underground cells

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Nassar spent 10 weeks in an underground jail at Hanano military barracks in the embattled province of Aleppo in northern Syria for planning to desert before his...

Israeli soldier, 3 gunmen killed in Egypt border attack

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

An Israeli soldier and three militants who infiltrated from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were killed in a clash along the border on Friday, the army said. It said tr...