WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Jordan should avoid military role in Syria: analysts

Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)

The spike in violence in Syria has triggered alarm bells in Jordan that it could be dragged into the conflict with "severe" repercussions, analysts say. Watchin...

Syrian rebels stretching regime troops thin: experts

Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian rebel forces are stretching the Syria army nationwide, grabbing border posts and countryside regions as they challenge the regime in its symbolic power c...

Outside View: Assad and 'standing tall'

Jul 24, 2012 (UPI)

While it is doubtful Syria's Bashar Assad ever had any intention of voluntarily stepping down as president, it has now become clear he has crossed the line of n...

Syria's Alawites 'prepare for last stand'

Jul 23, 2012 (UPI)

There are growing signs that Syrian President Bashar Assad is setting up strongholds for his minority Alawite sect in their ancestral lands in northwestern Syri...

Hezbollah having advanced arms intolerable: Israel's Barak

Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)

Israel will not tolerate the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday, as fears grew about the future of Syria's su...

Turkey sends missile batteries to Syria border

Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)

Turkey sent batteries of ground-to-air missiles to the border with Syria on Sunday, media reports said, boosting its firepower as rebels in Syria seized several...

Syrian forces launch all-out Damascus assault

Jul 21, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian forces have launched an all-out assault on opposition strongholds in Damascus, after rebels seized crossings on the Iraq and Turkey borders amid a heavy ...

Assad's inner circle is shrinking fast

Jul 19, 2012 (UPI)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle is shrinking alarmingly with the assassination of four key regime figures in a bombing by revolutionaries and th...

Outside View: U.N. should act on Ashraf

Jul 19, 2012 (UPI)

Many eyes will be focused on the U.N. Security Council this week when it hears a report from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq Martin ...

Bomb kills Syria defence minister, Assad brother-in-law

Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)

A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck at the heart of Syria's security apparatus, killing the country's defence minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-...

Ban in China seeking tougher action on Syria

Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is expected to press China's leaders Wednesday to back tougher action to stop violence in Syria before a Security Council showdown over a r...

Syria's Assad likely to defy rebel bombers

Jul 18, 2012 (UPI)

The bomb assassination of several key members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle, including his brother-in-law, has shaken the beleaguered Damas...

Assad will use chemical weapons: top defector

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will use chemical weapons against opposition forces and may have already deployed them, Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassado...

Syria defector Tlass urges transition, condemns army attacks

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

General Manaf Tlass, a key military defector and ex-ally of Bashar al-Assad, called Tuesday for a political transition in Syria and condemned military attacks o...

Assad moving troops from Golan to Damascus: Israel

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved army forces from the Golan Heights area next to Israel toward Damascus and other internal conflict zones, the Israeli...

Annan, Ban press Russia, China to back Syria action

Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)

Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon head for Russia and China on Monday to press the two UN Security Council doubters to back tougher action against President Bashar al-...

UN pursues probe in Syria village killings

Jul 15, 2012 (AFP)

UN observers plan to return on Sunday to the Syrian village of Treimsa to pursue their investigations after saying activists and rebels bore the brunt of an arm...

Defected Syrian envoy lashes out at Assad

Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)

Nawaf Fares, who this week defected as Syria's ambassador to Iraq, on Saturday accused President Bashar al-Assad of allowing Al-Qaeda to use Syria as a springbo...

Nawaf Fares: defected Syrian raises suspicion

Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)

Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect to the opposition, was widely seen as a regime hardliner and his decision to break ranks has triggered suspic...

Deal unlikely on Israel army draft law: minister

Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)

The Israeli government is unlikely to reach a deal on a new military draft law this session, potentially threatening the stability of the ruling coalition, a se...