CARE shuts Iraq operation
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CARE International has closed its operations in Iraq, the charity said overnight in an appeal for the release of its kidnapped director there.
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Geneva - The aid agency doctors without borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Thursday it was pulling out of Iraq because of escalating violence in the country and the danger to its staff.
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A humanitarian agency with a long history of work in Iraq has ended its operations in the war-torn nation after its leader was abducted.
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Description: A major Iraq reconstruction contractor, Contrack International, has decided to terminate its work, citing security issues and other costs.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi government has pulled the plug on the pan-Arab TV channel al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera&#39;s Baghdad operations have been ordered closed indefinitely.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has closed Baghdad&#39;s international airport and the country&#39;s borders with Syria and Jordan, and declared a curfew in rebel- held Fallujah
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CARE International has suspended its operations in Iraq following the kidnapping of its director there, the head of the aid agency's Australian arm said Wednesday.
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CARE International suspended its aid operations in Iraq after its country director Margaret Hassan, who has dual Iraqi and British nationality, was kidnapped, said Grant Thomas, a spokesman for the organization.
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MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res, one of the world&#39;s leading frontline aid organisations, today announced that it was withdrawing from Iraq because of the &quot;extreme risks&quot; facing aid workers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting a charity worker who has championed ordinary Iraqis for decades. In new violence, mortar attacks killed an American contractor and at least four Iraqi National Guard members and wounded 80 Iraqis, the U.S...
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Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday that Margaret Hassan, who has been working
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The head of a British charity&#39;s operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today, as four Iraqi National Guard soldiers and an American civilian contractor were killed in separate attacks.
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Iraq says it will close the offices of the Kurdish PKK rebel group and stop its operations in the country.
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Iraq cancels the licence of US private security firm Blackwater after eight civilians die in a shootout.
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Leading aid agency CARE International on Wednesday halted relief work in Iraq after its head of operations there was abducted, further fuelling fears that aid workers were becoming soft targets for extremists and common criminals.
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Care International suspended operations in Iraq today after gunmen seized the British woman who ran the humanitarian organisationâs work in the country.
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CARE International suspended aid operations in Iraq after its country director Margaret Hassan, who has dual Iraqi and British nationality, was kidnapped, Grant Thomas, a spokesman for the organization said.