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      <text>Darfur Joint Protection Force spokesman Mutawakkil Ali Wakil confirms that in coordination with the Sudanese Armed Forces that both groups have retaken control of Umm Sayala, North Kordofan, Sudan, with 38 members of the Rapid Support Forces confirmed to have been killed. </text>
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      <text>Joint Force spokesman Mutawakkil Ali Wakil confirms that in coordination with the Sudanese Armed Forces that both groups have retaken control of the Umm Sayala area in Sudan’s North Kordofan state, with 38 members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) confirmed to have been killed. </text>
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    <text>Darfur Joint Protection Force spokesperson Mutawakkil Ali Wakil confirms that, in coordination with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), that the joint force have retaken control of Umm Sayala, North Kordofan, Sudan, with 38 members of the Rapid Support Forces confirmed to have been killed. </text>
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    <date>2026-07-6</date>
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    <text>The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an inquiry into alleged human rights violations around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, warning that civilians face a risk of mass atrocities as the Rapid Support Forces encircles the city amid Sudan's civil war. </text>
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    <date>2026-06-30</date>
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    <text>Sudan's army says that it has destroyed two tanks and 224 combat vehicles used by Rapid Support Forces and seized 36 others in two weeks of military operations including in Blue Nile State and the Darfur and Kordofan regions. </text>
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    <date>2026-05-29</date>
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    <text>The Sudan Doctors Network accuse the Rapid Support Forces of killing 27 civilians in the Al-Murra village in the Bara area of North Kordofan, Sudan, during the second day of the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha. </text>
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      <text>The United Nations reports that 880 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes by the Rapid Support Forces between January and April, mostly in the Kordofan and Darfur regions in the first three months of 2026. </text>
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      <text>The United Nations reports that 880 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes between January and April, mostly in the Kordofan and Darfur regions in the first three months of 2026. </text>
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    <text>The United Nations reports that 880 civilians in Sudan had been killed in drone strikes by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) between January and April, mostly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions in the first three months of 2026. </text>
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      <text>The Sudanese Armed Forces recaptures the town of Barah in North Kordofan, Sudan, following a ground assault backed by airstrikes against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), reportedly inflicting heavy losses on the RSF and destroying 32 RSF combat vehicles. </text>
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    <text>The Sudanese military recaptures the town of Barah in North Kordofan, Sudan, following a ground assault backed by airstrikes against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), reportedly inflicting heavy losses on the RSF and destroying 32 RSF combat vehicles. </text>
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    <date>2026-02-19</date>
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    <text>At least three aid workers are killed and four others are injured in a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North on an aid convoy in South Kordofan, Sudan. </text>
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    <date>2025-11-14</date>
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    <text>The United Nations Human Rights Council establishes an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings and other alleged war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces and their allied groups in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. </text>
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    <text>At least 48 civilians are killed, houses are razed and property is looted in an attack when Rapid Support Forces fighters storm the village of Um Garfa in North Kordofan, Sudan. </text>
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    <date>2025-05-5</date>
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    <text>The International Court of Justice dismisses Sudan's case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alleging that the UAE violated the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to the Rapid Support Forces and other paramilitary groups in the Darfur region. </text>
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    <name>Al-Arabiya</name>
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  <text>The Rapid Support Forces-appointed governor of Sudan's Kordofan region, Hamad Mohammad Hamad Khalifa, resigns and will defect. </text>
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