Iraqi forces launched an offensive on November 11 to retake Rawa, where an estimated 10,000 civilians remain under Islamic State control. Rawa is the last Iraqi town remaining under Islamic State control, and Iraqi commanders expect the area to be retaken quickly – within a matter of days.
CIVIC has joined 18 members of the NGO community in issuing a joint letter to US Secretary of State Rex…
CIVIC has joined the NGO community in drafting a joint statement to the UN Security Council regarding the UN peacekeeping…
On Friday, Prime Minister al-Abadi announced the recapture of al Qaim, leaving only the town of Rawa and a few pockets of territory in western Anbar under Islamic State control in Iraq. The International Organization for Migration estimates that 65,000 people have fled western Anbar since January, including more than 19,000 since September 20.
In this episode of Intercross the Podcast, we sit down with ICRC in Washington’s Deputy Head of Communications Trevor Keck and…
Iraqi forces launched an offensive on Thursday to retake Rawa and al-Qaim in western Anbar. The International Organization for Migration estimates that 65,000 people have fled western Anbar since January, including more than 10,000 since the beginning of October.
Overall civilian casualties in Afghanistan decreased by 6 percent in the first nine months of 2017 compared to the same…
Protecting civilians is too often a “nice-to-have” and not a “must-have” part of militaries’ missions. This is fundamentally wrong-minded
CIVIC Senior Advisor for Programs, Nigeria Chitra Nagarajan discusses civilian protection, the Nigerian military, and CIVIC’s work in the region in…
