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 ...

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.

A coalition of Sudanese political and civil groups on Thursday demanded the opening of humanitarian corridors into the ...

A Sudanese coalition led by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Saturday a parallel government, a move ...

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

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, ...

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.

Link Copied! A man walks while smoke rises above buildings after aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023.

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 ...