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.

The Sudanese army has pushed the paramilitaries out of the center of the country, while fighting rages over the Kordofan ...

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

A doctors' group in Sudan says 13 children have died from malnutrition-related causes in a camp for displaced people as civil ...

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.

Control of oil-rich Kordofan is a big prize for both warring groups in their bid to take the country, analysts say.

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 ...

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 ...