The humanitarian situation in El Fasher, one of the regional capitals of Darfur, is dire, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces laying siege to the city for the past 15 months.

As a two-year-old civil war rages on, hundreds of thousands of civilians are at threat of starvation in Sudan's besieged city of Al-Fashir. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have surrounded the ...

A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.

Al Fashir, and its 900,000 inhabitants, have been held hostage by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for 14 months. Food ...

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.

Sudanese paramilitary fighters have killed at least 14 civilians trying to flee a besieged city in Darfur, a rights group ...

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.

A victory there by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, would mark a strategic loss for Sudan's military in its war with the paramilitary force as the territory is home to the headquarters of the ...

Originally formed in 2013 to revamp the notorious Janjaweed militia, the Rapid Support Forces, now under the leadership of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, were intended to support counterinsurgency operations ...

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 ...

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 ...