Medical aid group closes Iraq operations
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The international medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said Thursday it is pulling out of Iraq because of the escalating violence and targeting of aid workers.
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The International Ministerial Meeting of the Neighboring Countries of Iraq is closed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt&#39;s Red Sea resort, Nov.22, 2004.
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In a blow to the US effort to hold the Iraq multinational forces together, Hungary announced yesterday that it will withdraw its 300 noncombat troops by the end of March.
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A relief convoy of ambulances and supplies Monday was turned back by Iraqi authorities or US Marines from entering Fallujah, a spokesman for the international Red Cross said.
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The charity Care International has suspended its aid operations in Iraq after the abduction of its regional director in Baghdad. Dublin-born Margaret Hassan was seized on her way to work in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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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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The US military closes all roads into the Iraqi city of Falluja, amid speculation a major assault is imminent.
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A helicopter operated by a private security firm came down in Iraq last week, U.S. officials said on Thursday, an incident that marks the sixth downing of a helicopter in three weeks.
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The Italian government and opposition parties closed ranks Wednesday in hopes of securing the release of two humanitarian aid workers and two of their Iraqi colleagues kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON A construction company is pulling out of a multi (m) million-dollar Iraq contract, saying it&#39;s just too dangerous to be there.
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Denmark ends the evacuation of some 200 Iraqis who it feared faced danger for their links to its troops in Iraq.
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Care International suspended operations in Iraq yesterday after gunmen seized the woman who ran the humanitarian organization&#39;s work in the country.
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One of the world's largest aid  agencies, Care International, has suspended its operations in  Iraq and said Wednesday it might quit altogether after its  British-Iraqi country manager was kidnapped.
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Doctors without Borders decides to pull out of Iraq amid extreme risk for staff, escalating violence in country. GENEVA - The aid agency Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres - MSF) said Thursday
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U.S. troops handed over medical supplies to Iraqi relief workers Friday amid a siege of a northeastern ethnic Turkish city where Iraqi and American forces are trying to root out hundreds of militants.
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Already a troubled system, Iraqi medical care has fallen to the brink of collapse since the U.S.-led invasion five years ago.