WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

NATO has postponed a planned troop reduction in Kosovo as security in the Serb-dominated north remains "volatile", its secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen s...

Russia vows to keep supplying arms to Syria

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Russia vowed on Wednesday not to follow a Western arms embargo on Syria and promised new air defence systems and other military components to President Bashar a...

US envoy Burns meets Abbas in West Bank

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met on Wednesday with US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to discuss the stalled peace process, the official WAFA news...

Annan to brief UN Security Council on Syria

Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)

UN and Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday on the Syria crisis after a tour through Damascus, Tehran and Baghdad,...

Barroso urges resumption of Mideast talks

Jul 10, 2012 (UPI)

Re-launching Palestinian-Israeli peace process remains a "strategic priority" for the European Union, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says. Ba...

Lebanon bolsters army presence at Syria border

Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)

The Lebanese on Tuesday began sending troop reinforcements to the border with strife-torn Syria after deadly attacks in the region, an army spokesman told AFP. ...

EU's Barroso, Netanyahu talk Iran, peace process

Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)

EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran's nuclear programme on the second day of his...

Russia will not sell Syria new weapons: official

Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)

Russia will not supply new weapons to its Arab ally Syria while fighting there continues, Moscow arms export officials said Monday, while stressing that old con...

French FM Fabius discusses Syria with China

Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Monday, with the two discussing the bloodshed in Syria among a range of i...

In West Bank, EU's Barroso urges new peace talks

Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso called on Sunday for a return to Israeli-Palestinian talks, warning the peace process must not become "an orphan o...

Syria conducts naval live fire exercises: SANA

Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)

Syria's navy staged live fire exercises at the weekend, launching missiles from both sea and land to "simulate the scenario of repelling a sudden attack from th...

Israel's PM backs 'conscription for all' plan

Jul 08, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday he will back a controversial plan to compel ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab Israelis to complete comp...

Israelis march to demand conscription for all

Jul 07, 2012 (AFP)

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday demanding an extension of compulsory military or community service to all Israelis, including Arabs and ult...

Top general close to Syria's Assad defects

Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)

A top general close to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has defected, in a move hailed by Washington and the Syrian opposition as a major blow to Damascus, a s...

Van Rompuy: Armenia must settle conflict

Jul 06, 2012 (UPI)

Armenia needs to do more to settle its conflict with Azerbaijan if it wants closer political ties with the EU, the European Council's leader said this week. EU ...

World powers pile pressure on Assad as general defects

Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)

A world meeting on Syria urged the UN Friday to use the threat of sanctions to force change in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad was rocked by the defection of...

China joins Russia in staying away from Syria talks

Jul 05, 2012 (AFP)

China joined Russia on Thursday in boycotting a meeting aimed at coordinating efforts to stop the bloodshed in Syria, where three senior army officers were amon...

Swiss suspend arms exports to UAE over Syria weapons find

Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)

The Swiss government suspended arms shipments to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday amid a report that hand grenades made in Switzerland had found their way ...

Abbas to meet Clinton in Paris on Friday

Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday in Paris, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP on Wednesday...

Israeli coalition wobbles over Orthodox conscription

Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)

The Kadima party head threatened to quit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition on Wednesday over the issue of ultra-Orthodox Jewish milit...