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.

The tide turned against the RSF in March after losing much of Khartoum to the army, with its push for global recognition ...

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

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.

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

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

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.

Sudan's women and children are paying the highest price for a war the world barely acknowledges. 12 million people have been ...

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.

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 ...

After the Rapid Support Forces lost control of central Sudan, including Khartoum, the forces' leadership launched a broad mobilisation effort to recruit fighters in the Darfur states. This ...