National military
Appears in 17 stories · Last updated Nov 9, 2026
Holding Haroun; has not explained the arrest
Ahmed Haroun has been a wanted man since 2007, when the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his role in the Darfur campaign. On Sunday, Sudanese soldiers took him from his home in Omdurman, one day after he gave his first filmed interview in seven years.
Updated 3 days ago
Sudan's government filed complaints against Ethiopia at the UN and African Union over RSF drone launches; Ethiopia expelled six Sudanese diplomats on November 4
Drone strikes killed civilians in West Kordofan, South Kordofan and Blue Nile in the first days of November, adding to a toll that includes at least 153 dead at Amiet Market in Abyei on October 19. The October 26 strike on Tanqong Market in Nyala is now put at 188 killed and 356 wounded by the Sudan Founding Alliance's Government of Peace and Unity, figures not independently verified.
Accused by rights groups of the Nyala market strike
A drone struck a crowded market in Nyala, South Darfur, on the evening of 26 October. Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese rights group, says more than 100 people died and 113 were wounded, while the local Tasees health ministry put the toll at 188 dead and 356 injured. Doctors Without Borders said the hospital it supports received 36 bodies, 21 of them in civilian clothes.
Updated 6 days ago
Receiving defecting RSF commanders
Major General Siddiq Ander left Sudan's Rapid Support Forces on October 30, saying the paramilitary is run as a family business by relatives of its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. He also broke with the civilian Tasis alliance and called on other fighters to join the national army.
Fighting the RSF; managing border tensions with Ethiopia
Ethiopia ordered six Sudanese consular staff in the border town of Asosa to leave within 48 hours and shut the consulate. Sudan answered by closing Ethiopia's consulate in Gadarif and declaring its diplomats persona non grata.
Its officers were convicted of running the arms pipeline
An Abu Dhabi appeals court sentenced eight people to life in prison on 29 October for running weapons and ammunition to Sudan's army through the United Arab Emirates. The list includes the army's armament chief, Yasser Al Atta, and its former intelligence director, Salah Gosh.
Updated Nov 1
Several sanctioned commanders are SAF officers
Britain froze the assets and banned the travel of 15 Sudanese commanders on 26 October 2026, a year after El Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces. The Foreign Office has not said whether any of them holds money in Britain.
Updated Oct 29
Controls Khartoum and much of Sudan's east; conducting air campaign against RSF positions in Darfur
More than 100 people were killed in a drone strike on the Tangooj night market in Nyala on October 26, according to the Emergency Lawyers rights group, and the administration that runs the city has since put the toll at 188 dead and 356 wounded. Neither count has been independently verified.
Updated Oct 28
Holds Kurmuk; says it retook the Bakori base and Akleili on October 22
On October 22 the army said it had retaken the Bakori base in Blue Nile state, about 55 days after the Rapid Support Forces and their allies overran it. The 4th Infantry Division said its Martyr Adrob and Al-Naba Al-Yaqin forces cleared Bakori, also called Bukuri, and the nearby Akleili area.
Updated Oct 27
Denied any connection to the Abyei strike, after a military source said the army carried it out
A drone strike on Amiet market in Abyei killed at least 153 people, Abyei's information minister said, more than double the first toll of 73 as fires kept burning. UN peacekeepers said they could confirm at least 80 deaths and were still checking, with others missing.
Updated Oct 26
One of the two warring parties; UN attributes October drone strikes on displaced people's shelters to the army
Drone strikes killed at least 306 people across Sudan in the first three weeks of October, the UN human rights office said on 23 October, attributing them to both the army and the Rapid Support Forces. The deadliest hit a transport truck in Dibab, West Kordofan, on 18 October, killing at least 139 in what the office called a repeat "double tap" strike.
Updated Oct 24
Accused of carrying out the drone strikes
Drone strikes on a funeral convoy in West Kordofan and a fuel market in the disputed Abyei region killed more than 300 people over two days, local officials and the Sudan War Observatory said. Abyei's information minister put the Amiet Market toll at 153 and said fires were still burning as workers recovered bodies.
Updated Oct 22
As of October 2026: Captured Sodri and al-Mazroub, pushing toward Umm Badr
The Sudanese Armed Forces has extended its gains in North Kordofan since recapturing Sodri on September 25. On October 2, the army said it captured al-Mazroub, a town about 130 kilometers northwest of El-Obeid.
Updated Oct 5
As of September 2026: Government forces that retook Khartoum in 2025
Five million Sudanese have gone home since the army retook Khartoum in 2025. Many are returning to damaged homes, closed schools, and clinics that barely function.
Updated Sep 22
As of July 2026: Broke the El Obeid siege and secured the Omdurman corridor
For nearly two years, the people of El Obeid lived under a paramilitary siege that cut off food, fuel, and medicine. On July 26, 2026, Sudan's army broke it. Soldiers took the town of Bara and four nearby villages, then seized the full 350-kilometer Al Sadarat highway linking El Obeid to Omdurman.
Updated Jul 27
As of May 2026: Controls eastern Sudan and Khartoum; leads transitional government
The United Nations reopened its Khartoum headquarters Thursday, nearly three years after staff fled when civil war broke out in April 2023. The Sudanese Armed Forces recaptured the capital in March 2025, and more than two million people have since returned.
Updated May 30
As of May 2026: Controls central, eastern, and northern Sudan
Two of every five Sudanese now lack enough food. Three UN agencies said on May 15 that 19.5 million people across Sudan face crisis-level hunger after three years of war between the national army and a paramilitary force.
Updated May 15
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