The Latest Breaking News from ICRC

Air strikes pound Gaza for sixth day as deaths and fears of humanitarian disaster in besieged Palestinian enclave mount.

International charities and rights groups call for urgent action against Israel’s blockade.

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

Only emergency workers to be allowed into devastated area over fears of contamination from dead bodies in limited water supply

The part of the international Red Cross that deals with conflict and prisoners of war announced it will trim its projected budget by about one-eighth next year and cut nearly 20% of staff at its headquarters