WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Syria hammers opposition hub after UN vote

Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian forces unleashed their heaviest pounding of Homs in two weeks on Friday, activists said after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly backed an Arab initi...

Concerns grow over Assad's chemical arms

Feb 16, 2012 (UPI)

Israel and Western powers say they are becoming nervous about Syria's significant arsenal of chemical weapons, primarily the possibility that they could fall in...

China opposes forced regime change in Syria: envoy

Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a day before to heading to Damascus to push ...

Freed U.S. fighter vows a return to Libya

Feb 15, 2012 (UPI)

A Baltimore man who voluntarily fought with Libyan anti-government rebels a year ago, was jailed in solitary confinement, then freed, says he's preparing to go ...

US concerned about Syrian chemical arms, missiles

Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)

The United States is concerned about the fate of Syria's suspected stocks of chemical weapons and tens of thousands of shoulder-fired missiles if the regime col...

Lebanon: Hariri murder probe hikes tension

Feb 14, 2012 (UPI)

Lebanon marked Tuesday's seventh anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri as a ground-breaking international tribunal investigating his death threatens ...

Car bombs seen as Hezbollah's revenge

Feb 13, 2012 (UPI)

Israeli intelligence saw Monday's car bomb attacks against Israeli targets in India and Georgia as revenge strikes by Lebanon's Hezbollah for the Feb. 12, 2008,...

Israel blames Iran for embassy bombs in Delhi, Tbilisi

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

A hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnetic bomb on an Israeli embassy car in the Indian capital on Monday, police said, in one of two attacks in New Del...

China refuses to be drawn on Arab moves on Syria

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

China Monday urged the Arab League to continue its "political mediation" on Syria but refused to be drawn on the bloc's proposal to form a UN-Arab peacekeeping ...

Syria: No end to violence in sight

Feb 13, 2012 (UPI)

An Obama administration official said U.S. and international pressure on the regime of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has "been effective" and the regime will "come...

Arabs support Palestinian call for peace conference

Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday supported a Palestinian request for an international peace conference aimed at reaching a comprehensive soluti...

West stays off Syria warpath despite worsening violence

Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)

Despite the escalating violence in Syria, Western powers refuse to unleash a Libya-type operation against a regime backed by a much bigger army and powerful all...

Peru rebel leader 'Artemio' wounded: defense ministry

Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)

Peru's military on Sunday said "Artemio," leader of the once feared Shining Path guerrilla movement was alive but badly wounded, retracting an earlier president...

Jihadists, weapons 'moving from Iraq to Syria'

Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)

Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria and arms are also sent across the border to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iraq's deputy interi...

Eu urges progress toward Philippines peace

Feb 10, 2012 (UPI)

An EU delegation has urged the Philippine government and rebels to find a lasting solution to the armed conflict that has plagued the country's southern region ...

Australian historian uncovers WWII US mutiny

Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)

An Australian academic has uncovered what he believes is evidence of a mutiny by African-American soldiers stationed Down Under during World War II sparked by r...

Lebanon army boosts presence along Syria border

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

The Lebanese army late Thursday reinforced its presence in the northern region of Wadi Khaled, which borders Syria and is close to the flashpoint province of Ho...

Israel fears Syria arms transfers to Hezbollah: Barak

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Sophisticated weapons could be transferred from Syria to militant group Hezbollah and to Lebanon if the regime of Bashar al-Assad falls, Israel Defence Minister...

Putin warns of 'acting like a bull in china shop' in Syria

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Russian leaders under fire for a UN veto Wednesday rejected outside interference in the Syrian conflict, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warning against beha...

'Second Libya' would stretch Britain: lawmakers

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Britain's armed forces, strained by steep cuts in defence spending, would struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the Libya intervention, B...