Sudan is now on a fragile path to democracy and is ruled by a military-civilian government after a popular uprising led to the military's ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The Khartoum government, which seeks better ties with the U.S. and the West after nearly three...
US military releases new details about evacuation of personnel from embassy in SudanThe evacuation came as about 16,000 Americans are still trapped in Sudan as a civil war rages on.DOD/108th Public Affairs Detachment An American soldier was killed in a non-combat rollover accident in Kuwait, U...
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FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. (AP Phot...
"Today we have struck back," the president declared.The president said the US struck a terrorist base in Afghanistan and a chemical weapons facility in Sudan.Residents in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, said they heard explosions after two military jets flew over the capital.They said that ...
The military on Monday claimed to have secured the main television building in Omdurman, fending off the RSF after days of fighting. State-run Sudan TV resumed broadcasting. On Sunday, the RSF said it abandoned its main barracks and base, in Omdurman, which the armed forces had pounded with...
Sullivan said convoys with Americans in them were beginning to arrive at Port of Sudan on the Red Sea and the U.S. was working with neighboring countries to get them safely over the border. Sudan’s conflict involves two rival military leaders, the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-F...
The US State Department at the same time imposed visa restrictions on officials from the SAF, RSF, and leaders from the former Omar al-Bashir regime, saying they were complicit in “undermining Sudan’s democratic transition.” However, it did not provide the names of those hit with visa blo...
In April, the U.S. militarysuccessfully evacuatedU.S. diplomatic staff from Sudan and shuttered the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. Hundreds of U.S. civilianshave also been evacuated.
But Gen. Joseph Votel, the top US commander in the Middle East,told a Senate hearingthat while the military would be "looking more closely at the allegations" in CNN’s report, withdrawing support for the Saudi coalition could further endanger Americans in the region. ...