Saudi says Iraq holding pilot missing since 1991. DUBAI, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Saudi Arabia has accused Iraq of holding a Saudi pilot missing since his plane was shot down dur ...

As new State or non-State parties to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq emerge, the ICRC endeavours to make confidential contact with them, reminding them that humanitarian law applies in both contexts.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is close to an agreement with Iraqi authorities to allow its officials to visit prisoners held at Iraqi-run detention centres, where Sunnis allege ...

The head of the ICRC’s operations in Iraq told German television that it would begin withdrawing its foreign staff as of Tuesday. “We will begin on Tuesday to evacuate our international staff ...

Expanding conflict Baghdad / Geneva (ICRC) – As a result of the recent widening of the conflict in Iraq, many more people – numbering in the hundreds of thousands – have been affected. The provinces ...

The Geneva-based centre is also forwarding information from Iraqi detainees captured by United States-led forces in the country. The crisis unit, established at the end of March, has already ...

Iraq will be the ICRC's largest operation in 2008 with a budget of more than 107 million Swiss francs -- nearly double the organisation's initial budget for the country this year.

"Despite certain improvements in many parts of Iraq and the authorities' efforts to enhance basic services, disadvantaged people struggle to feed their families and continue to depend, to some ...

Baghdad [Iraq]: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contaminate an estimated 2,100 square kilometres of Iraqi land, a ...

Before the suspension, the ICRC was the only humanitarian aid agency operating in Iraq with six international employees and local staff based in Baghdad.

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The ICRC has been helping displaced people since the beginning of the year. So far, we have ...

An International Red Cross employee in Baghdad is missing and feared seriously injured after the vehicle he was traveling in was hit by gunfire. Vatche Arslanian, 48, a Canadian in charge of ...