On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...

However, the independence movement, led by Kiir’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), quickly splintered. By 2013, the country had descended into full-scale civil war. The fighting killed more ...

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice ...

A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation mission in a remote ...

South Sudan is in "alarming regression" as clashes in recent weeks in the northeast threaten to undo years of progress ...

The aircraft came under fire as it tried to rescue wounded soldiers, the United Nations said. The attack came amid fears that ...

A South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) commander, Major General Majur Dak, and 27 of his soldiers were killed during a ...

In South Sudan, political friction and rising violence jeopardize its tenuous peace process amid recent high-profile arrests. Security forces loyal to the president arrested officials aligned with the ...

South Sudan's political landscape is tense as forces loyal to President Kiir arrest key allies of Vice President Machar, ...

President William Ruto has urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and the first Vice President Riek Machar to engage in ...

White Army militia linked to Machar blamed for deadly attack on UN helicopter amid fragile peace in South Sudan.

Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threaten its fragile peace process, a United Nations rights body said on Saturday, days after the arrests of several officials allied to the ...