WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

NATO must probe, pay for errors in Libya: Amnesty

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

NATO must investigate the killing of dozens of civilians during its air campaign in Libya last year and provide reparations to the people affected, Amnesty Inte...

Saudi sends military gear to Syria rebels: diplomat

Mar 17, 2012 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia is delivering military equipment to Syrian rebels in an effort to stop bloodshed by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a top Arab diplomat said on...

Islamic Jihad rockets can hit Tel Aviv: armed wing

Mar 16, 2012 (AFP)

The Gaza-based militant group Islamic Jihad has weapons that can reach Tel Aviv, a member of the group's armed wing the Quds Brigades has told AFP in an intervi...

France against arming Syrian opposition

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

France is opposed to calls for foreign powers to arm the opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, fearing a descent into civil war, Foreign...

Israel-Egypt peace pact under threat

Mar 14, 2012 (UPI)

The Islamist-dominated Egyptian Parliament's moves to cut ties with Israel after Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip has heightened Israeli and U.S. fears post...

US says Russia, China narrow gap with world on Syria

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

The United States said Wednesday that Russia and China have moved closer to the rest of the world in condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackd...

China, Arabs agree on 'political' settlement in Syria

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

China and Arab countries agree on the need to find a "political solution" to the crisis in Syria, Chinese envoy Zhang Ming said on Tuesday after talks in Cairo ...

Gaza toll hits 25 as bloodshed rages for fourth day

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza for a fourth day on Monday, killing six more Palestinians, as a teenager died in a mystery blast, raising the death toll so far t...

UN leader backs NATO over Libya air strikes

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday threw his weight behind a UN report which said NATO did not deliberately target civilians during its air strikes in Libya last ...

US concerned after new Sri Lanka rights charges

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

The United States voiced concern Tuesday over human rights in Sri Lanka and urged accountability after allegations that troops summarily killed the 12-year-old ...

'Massacre' in Syria's Homs, hundreds flee

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Nearly 50 women and children were found with their throats cut or bearing stab wounds in Syria's Homs, prompting hundreds of families to flee the restive city, ...

Israel invasion looms amid Gaza fighting

Mar 12, 2012 (UPI)

As Israeli jets hammer the Gaza Strip amid a barrage of Palestinian rockets on cities in the Negev desert, pressure has been mounting for a new invasion of the ...

Gaza flare-up stokes debate about Israel killings policy

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Israel's assassination of a top Gaza militant, which brought hundreds of rockets raining down on the Jewish state and the danger of further escalation, has left...

West steps up pleas to Russia and China over Syria

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

The United States and European powers on Monday stepped up pleas to Russia and China to join UN Security Council action to force Syria's president halt deadly a...

Gaza violence spikes, Netanyahu warns militants

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed three Palestinians on Sunday, raising the toll to 18, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed no let-up against rocket-fir...

Russia slays Georgian 'monsters' in Kremlin-backed film

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

A lone heroine fights off giant monsters and sinister masked warriors in "August 8," a Kremlin-funded blockbuster that gives the Russian view of the country's 2...

GCC chief meets Chinese envoy on Syria

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

China's envoy on Syria met with Gulf Cooperation Council head Abdullatif al-Zayani in the Saudi capital on Sunday, the six-nation organisation said. The GCC sec...

Israeli air strikes kill 15 in Gaza

Mar 10, 2012 (AFP)

Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed 15 Palestinians, including a top militant, medics said on Saturday, as militants fired 100 rockets into the Jewish state. It ...

China sending envoy on Syria to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

China said Friday it is sending an envoy to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France to explain its position on Syria, after Beijing called for an end to the year-long co...

Deaths mount in Syria on eve of Annan visit

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian government forces pressed on with deadly assaults on Friday, killing around 50 civilians, monitors said, on the eve of a peace mission by international e...