UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan

Diplomats and senior UN figures speaking at the UN security council have condemned mass killings by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher after the Sudanese city “descended into an even darker hell” following the paramilitary group’s takeover at...

Rebels accused of massacring hundreds of people as videos emerge of atrocities and bodies in Sudanese city

An elderly man sits on the floor, dozens of bodies lying around him, before a Sudanese rebel fighter approaches and shoots him. The apparent killing – captured on video shared online by the rebels themselves – took place at a university medical...

Sudan: Sudanese army commits massacre against civilians after the fall of El-Fasher

A shocking video circulated by the media and social networks shows Sudanese army soldiers beheading unarmed civilians in the city of El-Obeid, in North Kordofan state, in an escalation that observers describe as retaliation for the fall of the...

UN relief chief warns of 'even darker hell' in Sudan as atrocities mount in El-Fasher

WASHINGTON UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Thursday warned of "horrific" levels of violence and suffering in Sudan as El-Fasher has descended into “an even darker hell” following its capture by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). "El-Fasher, already...

10 new Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis; Trump agrees to one-year trade truce with Xi; Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces execute at least 460 people inside a hospital

Israel continues to violate the Gaza ceasefire, bombing Khan Younis and Beit Lahia. Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani suggests Hamas breached the ceasefire with an attack in Rafah that killed an Israeli soldier. Hamas says...

Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Sudan’s government says the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has...

Journalists Under Attack in Sudan and Senegal as Watchdog Warns of Escalating Crackdowns

Amid relentless violence and atrocities by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have placed civilians in grave danger, journalists face a double threat: struggling to survive while being directly targeted for their reporting....

Greece's Aegean Airways to fly direct to Baghdad in European first

Published on 30/10/2025 - 16:26 GMT+1 Aegean Airlines will become the first European carrier to fly directly to Baghdad when it launches a route from Athens later this year, the Greek foreign minister said on Thursday during a visit to Iraq. The...

Last hospital in Darfur’s al-Fashir raided, hundreds feared dead, UN and Sudanese officials say

Audio By Carbonatix By Nafisa Eltahir (Reuters) -The last functioning hospital in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir was raided and hundreds are feared to have been killed there after a paramilitary force overran the city this week, the World Health...

RSF militants committing genocide in Sudan's El Fasher with UAE, Israel backing: Analyst

By Sally Ahmed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia group backed by the United Arab Emirates and Israel, are committing “genocide” in Sudan’s El Fasher, says a Sudanese analyst. Speaking to the Press TV website, Khartoum-based writer and...

Sudan: ‘Massacre actively underway’ says former UN Sudan chief

Evidence of mass killings of civilians is mounting in Sudan. Yesterday we reported on how the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized control of the city of el-Fasher from the Sudanese army. And RSF soldiers had uploaded videos showing themselves...

Trump and Xi hold first face-to-face talks in six years

US President Donald Trump has hailed a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, amid hopes for a de-escalation of tensions between the world's two biggest economies. Show more Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have held their first face-to-face...

Sudan expels 2 UN officials

KHARTOUM/CAIRO, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Sudan on Tuesday declared two senior officials of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) personae non gratae and ordered them to leave the country within 72 hours, the official SUNA news agency reported. The Ministry...

Joint UN convoy brings vital aid to besieged communities in Sudan's South Kordofan

PORT SUDAN, Sudan – A joint United Nations convoy carrying humanitarian assistance from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UNICEF, and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), has reached the towns of Dilling and Kadugli in South Kordofan, delivering...

UN Demands End to Sudan Siege, Killings

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urgently called for an immediate end to military hostilities in Sudan on Thursday, following alarming reports that paramilitary forces shot dead over 460 patients and companions at a...

Survivors fleeing Sudan’s el-Fasher recount terror, bodies in streets

Published On 30 Oct 202530 Oct 2025 Those who have fled the western city of el-Fasher in wartorn Sudan are recounting scenes of horrific violence at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as aid workers say they fear only a...

Sudan Red Crescent says 5 volunteers killed, 3 missing in North Kordofan amid RSF attacks

KHARTOUM / ISTANBUL The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) said Tuesday that five of its volunteers were killed and three others remain missing in the central city of Bara in North Kordofan state amid attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support...

Washington’s ‘Blob’ is helping whitewash war crimes in Sudan

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb Ben Rhodes, a former United States deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama, famously called Washington’s foreign policy establishment “the Blob” to describe its entrenched ecosystem of think tanks, former...

RSF massacres over 1,500 in Sudan’s El-Fasher amid civil war

At least 1,500 civilians have been killed in Sudan’s western Darfur city of el-Fasher over the past three days, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control amid the ongoing civil war. Survivors...

Voting for stability: Iraq’s election inside an old system

Iraqis will head to the polls on Nov. 11 to elect a 329-seat Parliament from among 7768 candidates. For the first time in years, the country enters an election in relative calm, with reduced regional and domestic violence giving political blocs...