Lebanon confirmed the country’s third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency...

A major prisoner exchange deal has been agreed between Yemen’s internationally-recognised government in exile and the Houthi-led government based in the capital Sanaa, the UN confirmed yesterday. This is...

Returning to his fields for the first time in 14 years, Palestinian farmer Naser Abu Isaeed surveyed the toll taken by conflict on formerly productive soil, Reuters reports. “I...

The United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory remain in breach of international law, rejecting the...

The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday that 75 per cent of Yemenis have no access to healthcare. On Twitter, the ICRC wrote: “There are 27...

Scores of Palestinian activists yesterday protested in front of the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Al-Bireh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah,...

Turkish and Russian humanitarian organisations signed an agreement Tuesday to increase aid, especially in Syria’s Idlib province, reports Anadolu Agency. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Turkish Red...

Over 100 people died after a series of air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on a detention centre in Yemen yesterday, the International Committee of the Red...

The number of bodies recovered from the rubble of the Dhamar prison in northern Yemen, which is being used as a detention facility by the Houthi militias, rose to...

Gaza. The very name evokes images of Israeli bombardment, crumbling infrastructure, keffiyeh-clad protestors standing defiantly with Palestinian flags and slingshots, and screaming children shot by snipers in a fog...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry yesterday urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to form a fact-finding committee to probe the issue of four diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon in...

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday said the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip is a result of the continuous Israeli siege imposed on the...

Yemen’s warring parties have exchanged lists with a total of 16,000 names of people believed to be detained as part of a prisoner swap deal signed last week, the...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday that Yemen is suffering from death, destruction and hunger which needs to be brought to an end. In a...

Turkish Red Crescent President Kerem Kinik on Saturday called for the protection of rescue ship Aquarius, says Anadolu Agency. The Aquarius, operated by the SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), saves...

The International Committee of the Red Cross has insisted that, as the occupying power in the West Bank, Israel is bound by international humanitarian law. “It has a duty...

“There could be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and it can only end through a negotiated political process. “ reaffirmed their determination to continue active cooperation with...

Dozens of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip demonstrated on Wednesday to show solidarity with one of their colleagues recently arrested by Israel. Organized by the Palestinian Media Forum, an NGO,...

A boat carrying 40 African migrants arrived in Tunisia, Wednesday, after spending more than 20 days in the sea aboard a ship which belongs to an international oil company. It...

Saudi Arabia’s military forced an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) aid plane to redirect yesterday after it took off from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the official Saudi...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had pulled 71 international staff out of Yemen because of security incidents and threats, moving them to...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called for providing surgical and medical needs to the Gaza Strip yesterday, after thousands of demonstrators were injured during peaceful protests...

A security guard who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Somali capital of Mogadishu kidnapped the German nurse who went missing earlier this week,...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday one of its employees had been killed in a shooting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, according to...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday warned of a complete collapse of the health situation of patients with kidney failure in Yemen. The warning came...

The Syrian army is poised to slice opposition-held eastern Ghouta in two as forces advancing from the east link up with troops at the enclave’s western edge, a pro-Damascus...

A humanitarian aid convoy turned back from Douma in the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta on Monday after shelling in the town, coinciding with mortars fired on the...

The Director of Human Rights for Yemen, Ms Kim Sharif, on Monday submitted an application to the Westminster Magistrates Court and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Ms Alison...

The Red Cross said on Monday Israel has a duty to guarantee the safety and dignity of Palestinian families visiting prisoners, after a right-wing lawmaker was filmed shouting abuse...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday an announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross that cholera cases in the country had reached one million...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that 2.5 million Yemenis are without access to clean water, Reuters reported. The capital Sana’a and southern Bayda governorate...

Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year, with heavy air strikes causing hundreds of civilian casualties, aid agencies said...