Famine has spread to two new regions in Sudan, including a major city in the Darfur region where a militia has reportedly carried out mass killings and sent tens of thousands fleeing in the last week.

Conflict reignited across Sudan in April 2023, displacing more than 12 million people and plunging the country into chaos. And today, the world risks another chapter of horror in Sudan as violence engulfs El Fasher.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday that Washington wanted "to see this conflict come to a peaceful end, just as we have with so many others, but the reality is it's a very complicated situation on the ground right now".

The alleged atrocities "are part of a broader pattern of violence that has afflicted the entire Darfur region," the International Criminal Court said.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said Monday they are taking steps to preserve evidence from Sudan's Darfur region of possible war crimes

A look at the forces, both in Sudan and internationally, behind the country’s civil war and the mass killings in El Fasher.

The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world's largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of el-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.

Sudan's brutal civil war descended further into violence this week, as the RSF reportedly carried out mass killings.

A global hunger monitor is warning that no food aid has reached a conflict-hit area of South Sudan this year despite growing fears that it is headed toward famine.

The U.S. is working with other nations to end the conflict in Sudan, the White House said on Tuesday, after reports of mass killings during the fall of a city to paramilitary forces last week. The Rapid Support Forces' capture of Al-Fashir,