BASRA (Iraq) - IRAQ and Iran exchanged on Sunday the remains of 250 soldiers killed during their 1980-1988 war in an operation organised by the Red Cross, an AFP photographer said.

The remains of 41 Iranian soldiers and those of 200 Iraqis were swapped at the Shalamjah border post near the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.

The ICRC said in August that tens of thousands of members of the Iraqi and Iranian armed forces are still listed as missing, 20 years after the end of the war, in which an an estimated one million people were killed on both sides. -- AFP