Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

The event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines will feature “dazzling” displays of Americana and American history, musical performances and a fireworks show to cap the night, said U.S.

There was "relief" all around at the Red Cross museum in Geneva on Tuesday as it has its future guranteed until at least 2030 ...

The political assumption of peace in Europe is over. Climate-related emergencies are escalating. Humanitarians must be ...

It was 2008, [hurricanes] Ike and Gustav. I threw on a Red Cross T-shirt and volunteered. I was dishing out chili for two and a half hours. It was in the 90s, and in the truck it must have been over ...

The U.S.-backed aid system that has kept hundreds of thousands of people alive on the edge of Sudan's civil war, one of the ...

Mercy dogs didn’t need orders, medals, or parades—they just saw a man bleeding in the mud and ran straight into gunfire to ...

Min Young-jae has not seen or heard anything about her eldest brother for 75 years. He was 19 and she was only 2 when, during ...

The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 returned the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) to its roots as a wartime humanitarian aid organization, and returned it to the size and strength ...

As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 physicians and support staff sailed to war-torn ...

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the past month near aid hubs set up under a new Israel-backed system, ...