Local rights groups say Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a displacement camp outside el-Fasher, ...

The top U.N. human rights body has accused both the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces of detaining tens of ...

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 south-western city of Nyala in Darfur recently became the centre of a significant political development. After more than two years of fighting Sudan’s army, an alliance of armed and political ...

U.N. warns Sudan’s RSF against forming a rival government, citing threats to national unity, worsening famine, and regional ...

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.

Over the last two and a half years, a brutal civil war between the Sudan Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

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 ...

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 ...