The Latest Breaking News from ICRC

Hamas, who took more than 200 hostages in an attack in Israel two weeks ago, said it released the hostages – two elderly Israeli women – on ‘humanitarian grounds’

Israel’s strikes and blockade are pushing Gaza’s essential services and resources to the brink of collapse.

Many of those left behind are the sick and elderly, with humanitarian groups trying to seek them out to provide help. Armenia is also struggling to house and support the 100,000 people who have fled into the country

The US has failed to redress Iraqis who suffered from systemic torture and abuse in its prisons during the invasion.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan says fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ will lead to mass exodus from enclave in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan claims ‘demilitarisation’ of separatists is ongoing in close cooperation with Russian peacekeepers.

Humanitarian organisations have issued warnings about the imminent risk of ‘weapon contamination’ in Libya.

A 24-hour “"anti-terrorist” operation launched by Azerbaijan to “restore the country’s constitutional order” threatened briefly to escalate into a full-scale war with Armenia over the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. But hostilities have been brought – temporarily at least – to a halt by a ceasefire mediated by the local Russian…

‘We should be afraid of an epidemic’ says worried survivor