The Latest Breaking News from ICRC

An aircraft carrying eight tons of emergency medical supplies has landed in Sudan to help hospitals devastated by more than two weeks of fighting between forces loyal to rival generals

Sudan's army and its rival paramilitary said Sunday they will extend a humanitarian cease-fire a further 72 hours. The decision follows international pressure to allow the safe passage of civilians and aid but the shaky truce has not so far stopped the clashes.

Inmates who have been held for years in the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility in Cuba are showing signs of "accelerated aging", a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. "We're calling on the US administration and Congress to work together to find adequate…

The Guantanamo prison camp has come to symbolise the brutality of the US’s so-called ‘war on terror’.

Foreign nationals, including Brits, have been left to fend for themselves in Khartoum as governments, aid agencies say it is too dangerous to run evacuations

Leader of the Rapid Support Forces has used global public relations firms to convince observers he is a force for good.

Humanitarian organisations say they’re ready to respond to looming refugee crisis – but conflict has halted operations.

Saudi Arabia on Monday released 104 detainees to Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross and a Saudi-led coalition said, in a unilateral move that follows simultaneous detainee exchanges between Yemen's warring parties.

The Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi militias freed scores of prisoners Sunday on the last of a three day exchange of nearly 900 detainees. Planes carrying detainees took off at the same time from the government-controlled northern city of Marib and the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa, the International Committee of…

Houthi rebels free 16 Saudis as Riyadh also releases hundreds of Yemeni prisoners on second day of detainee exchange.

A flight carrying Houthi prisoners left Saudi Arabia on Saturday bound for Yemen's capital Sanaa, after which another flight will arrive to the Kingdom carrying Saudi prisoners, on the second day of the prisoner exchange operation. The flight from the southern Saudi city of Abha took off before 9 am…