WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Syria: a peaceful uprising turned brutal civil war

Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)

The spark was lit in March 2011, when a group of young boys were arrested and cruelly tortured for daubing walls in the southern Syrian city of Daraa with anti-...

Barak panel wants more for Israeli defense

Aug 20, 2012 (UPI)

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has convened a secret panel to argue for increased defense spending. The panel produced a report stating that since 2008 Isr...

UN observers wind up Syria mission

Aug 19, 2012 (AFP)

UN observers wind up their mission in Syria Sunday, after Damascus denied opposition claims that top regime official Vice President Faruq al-Shara had defected ...

Syria denies vice president has defected

Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)

Syria denied opposition claims on Saturday that top regime official Vice President Faruq al-Shara had defected as its armed forces pounded rebels in several key...

Syria pounds rebel bastions as UN names new envoy

Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian forces launched new air strikes and shelled rebel strongholds in several key cities on Saturday, a watchdog said, after the UN named a new envoy to try t...

Syrians flee to Turkey after deadly Aazaz air strike

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Carrying bags of clothes and boxes of food on their heads, hundreds of Syrians are fleeing to Turkey after a massive Syrian air strike on the northern rebel bas...

World presses Syria as regime accused of new atrocity

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

The world community piled the pressure on Syria Thursday to end 17 months of bloodshed as rights groups accused Damascus of a new atrocity and the conflict thre...

Sinai nest of terrorists :Israeli military source

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

If Egypt fails to restore order in the Sinai peninsula it could come to resemble the Afghan mountain hideouts which sheltered the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda all...

Peru soldiers killed in clash with Maoist rebels

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Five soldiers were killed and seven wounded in a clash with suspected Shining Path Maoist guerrillas, Peru's military said Thursday. The attack occurred in a mo...

Air strike kills over 30 as OIC suspends Syria

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria, saying the Muslim world "can no longer accept a regime that massacres its people", as 31 people were re...

US reality TV show accused of trivializing war

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

An NBC television reality show featuring US celebrities competing in quasi-military drills is coming under fire from Nobel laureates and other critics who say t...

China, S.Korea demand Japan face up to war past

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

China and South Korea on Wednesday pressed Japan to face up to its wartime past, as festering territorial disputes flared and Asia marked the anniversary of Tok...

West hampering Syria crisis resolution: China paper

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

China's top state newspaper accused Western powers Wednesday of hampering international efforts to end the bloody conflict in Syria, as a senior Damascus envoy ...

Warplanes hit Aleppo in renewed Syria violence

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian warplanes hit a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, as fighting raged in several neighbourhoods of the embattled northern c...

Old regime loyalists attack Yemen defence ministry

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Troops of Yemen's elite Republican Guard, led by the son of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, attacked the defence ministry on Tuesday, leaving five people d...

Israel picks new home front defence minister

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli former internal security minister Avi Dichter is to be named home front defence minister, media reported on Tuesday, as speculation grows that the Jewis...

Outside View: Last supper with Arafat

Aug 14, 2012 (UPI)

Yasser Arafat sat immediately to my right at the head of the old long wooden dining/conference table he had used for decades. His friends and Cabinet seated alo...

Syria aide due in China for talks on conflict

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

A top aide to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was due to arrive in China on Tuesday for talks about a political resolution to the violence in the conflict-torn...

Syria rebels claim jet downing as army advances in Aleppo

Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian rebels claimed they downed a fighter jet Monday in what would be a major coup for the opposition but the regime seized the upper hand in Aleppo as it adv...

CIA allegedly overseeing arms into Syria

Aug 13, 2012 (UPI)

Syrian opposition officials claim the CIA is controlling weapons flow to Syrian insurgents. "Not one bullet enters Syria without U.S. approval," a Syrian opposi...