World Vision Australia Halts Iraq Aid Operations Indefinitely
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World Vision Australia will close its operations in Iraq because it is too dangerous, the organization&#39;s director of emergency relief Geoff Shepherd said.
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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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Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity that helps people in need throughout the world has announced it would be stopping all activities in the war-torn nation of Iraq because it could no longer guarantee the safety of its workers.
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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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Aid agency Care International has suspended its work in Iraq after the abduction of a British-Iraqi woman who heads the independent charity there, Australian officials say.
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The remaining international aid agencies in Iraq are considering pulling out of the country after the kidnapping of four humanitarian workers, including two Italian women, from their headquarters in Baghdad, it was claimed yesterday.
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SYDNEY : Foreign Minister Alexander Downer dismissed newspaper claims the Australian government was repeatedly warned its support for the Iraq war would impede the fight against terrorism.
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Iraq has halted oil exports to Austria's OMV, the leading oil and gas group in central Europe, to protest a deal with the self-ruled Kurdish region, a government official said Saturday.
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Australia has turned down a request by the United Nations to send more troops to Iraq to protect UN personnel there. Australia has agreed instead to train a contingent of Fijian soldiers for the job.
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CARE today suspended its humanitarian relief efforts in Iraq one day after gunman kidnapped the British-born woman who for decades has led the group&#39;s drive to improve living conditions here.
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Australia's foreign minister warned Monday that pulling U.S. coalition troops out of Iraq too soon could provoke a wider conflict in the Middle East.
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Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Co (KGL) said on Friday it would halt its operations in Iraq after a group holding seven of its drivers hostage said they would release them if the firm ended its work in the country.
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Dubai: The Kuwaiti firm which has seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq has decided to halt operations in the troubled country, bowing to the kidnappers&#39; condition for their release, it said Friday.
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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on rejected on September 16 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s criticism of the Iraq war as illegal, saying the Iraq war was &quot;entirely valid.
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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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Iraq&#39;s northern oil exports were halted Wednesday following a series of massive attacks on Iraq&#39;s pipeline network linking northern oil fields in Kirkuk to Turkey.