Red cross News

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued an urgent plea for it to be allowed to deliver much needed aid to civilians in the embattled town of Qusayr (Qusair), close to the Syrian border with Lebanon.

A response from the Tanzania Red Cross Society outlines the needs of the local responders in trying to alleviate the suffering by those on the ground at the building collapse.

The 'Cruz Roja' or Red Cross in Spain are more used to helping starving people in third world countries. Now, for the first time, they are asking Spanish people to help their fellow countrymen.

Abuja - The Red Cross in Nigeria says floods have killed 137 people and affected 15 local governments and displaced 36, 331 since this year's July peak of the rainy season.

A Saudi man who strayed over the Israeli border from Egypt whilst hiking, has returned home after six years in an Israeli jail. The Saudi national was first deported to the U.S. before he could return home.

Damascus - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Sunday that the conflict that has wracked Syria since March 2011 and claimed more than 10,000 lives is now a full-blown civil war throughout the entire nation.

As an international organization the Red Cross is striving to help the people on the ground in Syria whose lives are at risk due to the intense violence there.

Red Cross teams are still unable to enter the Syrian city of Homs to evacuate civilians caught in the war zone due to shelling.

The Red Cross has stated that the Syrian government and the rebel opposition have agreed to a temporary truce in order to allow the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Homs.

The beheaded corpse of a British aid doctor devoted to "caring for others less fortunate than himself" has been found in Pakistan, almost four months after he was kidnapped, with a note saying he had been killed by the Taliban, police said.