Major aid agency quits Iraq
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One of the few remaining aid agencies in Iraq, World Vision, is pulling out of the country.
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Aid agency MSF withdraws its foreign staff from Somalia after three workers were killed by a bomb.
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The British-based CARE charity suspended its work in Iraq Wednesday following the kidnapping of its chief of operations by unknown armed militants.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, leaving the oil hub without British forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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A major contractor in Iraq has terminated its effort to rebuild the transportation system there, in part, because of the high costs related to security, military and company officials said Wednesday.
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Leading relief agency CARE International halted work in Iraq after its head of operations there was abducted, further fuelling fears that aid workers were becoming soft targets for hostage-takers.
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A number of aid agencies evacuated  their staff from a town in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday  after unidentified gunmen attacked a house used by the  International Committee of the Red Cross, aid workers said.
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The aid agency which Margaret Hassan worked for before she was kidnapped  closes all its Iraqi operations  and pleads for her release.
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq Wednesday following the abduction of  two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.
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A senior US state department official resigns after criticism of how private security firms in Iraq are supervised.
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The United Nations refugee agency said Thursday it was pulling staff out of part of Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region to protest government restrictions on the aid workers.
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A number of aid agencies evacuated their staff from a town in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday after unidentified gunmen attacked a house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross, aid workers said.
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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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The White House&#39;s director of postwar policy for Iraq, who was instrumental in helping to set up an interim government to lead that country until elections can be held, is stepping down.
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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, Aug. 24 -- Escalating a political crisis that has paralyzed the Iraqi government, three secular cabinet members will formally resign Saturday, according to a senior member of the group.
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq on Wednesday following the abduction  of two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.