Sudan’s regular army, known as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), has fought a bloody civil war against the paramilitary Rapid ...

The African Union has rejected a move by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to form a rival government, calling ...

The African Union said Wednesday it will not recognize a rival government declared by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, urging ...

A bitter two-year civil war in Sudan has pitted the government against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which announced it was ...

It urged African Union member states and the international community not to recognize the parallel administration, ...

An activist group reports that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked a village in the southern Kordofan region, killing ...

Who are the Rapid Support Forces and how did they get to be so powerful? Known as al-Quwat al-Da’m al-Sari’ in Arabic, the paramilitary force was created in 2013 by the government of al-Bashir.

His rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Commander Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, announced a "humanitarian truce for a period of 72 hours" for Eid al-Fitr to allow for evacuations.

The African Union said on Wednesday it would not recognize a “so-called parallel government” in Sudan, urging its members to follow suit.

Despite the Rapid Support Forces withdrawal from the capital and the urging of officials like Mr. Türk, of the U.N., and others, many diplomats and aid workers believe that the war’s end is far ...

Burhan and his current rival and Rapid Support Forces leader, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a former camel dealer widely known as Hemedti, were leaders in a counterinsurgency against an uprising in ...

The Rapid Support Forces have more than 75,000 combatants, most of whom hail from the Darfur region in the country’s far west. The force is buttressed by additional recruits in Sudan’s north ...