WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Myanmar refugees in China 'desperate': HRW

Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)

Thousands of refugees who have fled to China from war-torn northern Myanmar face a humanitarian crisis due to lack of adequate shelter, food, water and healthca...

EU blasts Syria over jet but warns against militarisation

Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)

The European Union on Monday rounded on Syria for downing a Turkish fighter jet while warning of the dangers of military escalation ahead of NATO talks on the i...

Walker's World: How does Turkey do it?

Jun 25, 2012 (UPI)

As the economies of Europe, China, India and the United States all slow at once, how does Turkey do it? How does this country, poised at the intersections of Eu...

On rare Israel trip, Putin talks Syria, Iran

Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday met Israeli leaders on a rare trip to the Jewish state for discussions that focused on continuing violence in Syria a...

Turkey insists Syria downing of warplane 'hostile act'

Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)

Syria insisted on Monday that a Turkish warplane shot down by its forces violated its airspace, but Ankara hit back saying it was a "hostile act of the highest ...

More than 100 dead as violence intensifies in Syria

Jun 24, 2012 (AFP)

More than 100 people were reported killed Saturday in violence across Syria, as Turkey played down Syria's shooting down of one of its warplanes. President Bash...

Turkey takes jet downing to NATO, Syria tension soars

Jun 24, 2012 (AFP)

NATO said on Sunday it will discuss Turkey's accusation that Syria shot down one of its warplanes in international airspace, as Damascus suffered heavy casualti...

Israel army 'game' leaves Palestinian dead

Jun 24, 2012 (AFP)

As the Shawakha brothers rushed to protect their home from intruders, they had no clue they were unwitting participants in an Israeli army exercise that would l...

Iraq warns on Syria crisis spillover

Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned on Saturday of the danger that the Syrian crisis might spill over into neighbouring states, and insisted that Iraq...

Turkey says downed jet may have breached Syrian airspace

Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)

Turkey said Saturday its downed fighter jet may have violated Syrian airspace after Damascus confirmed shooting it down, sparking a fresh crisis amid nosediving...

Deadly Israel raid on Gaza deals blow to truce efforts

Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)

The armed wing of Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, threatened on Saturday to end a three-day-old Egyptian-brokered truce following a flurry of Israeli air str...

Syria says it shot down Turkish jet

Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)

Syria confirmed on Saturday that it shot down a Turkish warplane over its territory, sparking a fresh crisis on the two countries' long border which is already ...

Turkey tensions simmer as Assad retains old guard

Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)

Turkey on Saturday played down the loss of a warplane to Syrian air defences as President Bashar al-Assad announced a new cabinet with key posts unchanged and d...

Defected pilot a 'traitor': Syrian defence ministry

Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)

Syria on Thursday denounced an air force pilot who defected as a "traitor" and said it wanted to recover the warplane he used to flee to neighbouring Jordan. "T...

Outside View: Game book

Jun 21, 2012 (UPI)

Take A few steps back, allow a few months to pass, and Syria becomes Libya. A contrivance of elegant subtlety, Syria President Bashar Assad has blundered into t...

Hamas says two fighters found dead in bombed Gaza tunnel

Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)

Palestinians said Thursday they had recovered the bodies of two militants from a tunnel damaged by an Israeli air strike on Gaza, raising to 10 the death toll i...

Syria rebels gain ground with foreign help

Jun 21, 2012 (UPI)

Syrian rebels seem to be gaining ground in their increasingly bloody 15-month-old uprising to unseat President Bashar al-Assad and his minority Alawite regime. ...

Soldiers, rebels die in Shan state clashes

Jun 20, 2012 (UPI)

A dozen Myanmar soldiers have died in clashes with the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar's northern Shan state, unconfirmed reports said. Fighting broke out i...

Israel says raid kills Gazan behind Egypt border attack

Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli air strikes on Wednesday killed a Gaza teenager and a militant who the army said was a "global jihad" operative behind a deadly ambush on Israel's borde...

Obama: China, Russia know dangers of Syrian civil war

Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said Russia and China understood the dangers of a Syrian civil war but had not yet "signed on" to a plan to prod President ...