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An armed defector from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrives, believed to be surrendering to the Sudanese military, in the west of Omdurman on 19 August 2026.

A blanket US arms embargo on Sudan is not the answer

An American envoy has advised the UN Security Council to treat each warring Sudanese party equally, while Washington relaxes restrictions on the RSF militia's main foreign backer

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 01 September 2026
An armed defector from the Rapid Support Forces—believed to be on his way to surrender to the Sudanese Army in western Omdurman amidst the war between the Army and the RSF—arrives on 19 August 2026. AFP

Is Sudan heading for partition?

The establishment of the Tasis government, a governing authority in RSF-controlled territory, could be the first institutional building block of eventual secession

Shawgi Abdelazim 26 August 2026
 Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters arrive after eight hours of walking in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region, Ethiopia, on 29 June 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP

Why clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are ominous

Both the government in Addis Ababa and armed Tigrayan independence fighters have their supporters, from as near as next door to as far away as Tel Aviv

Amr Emam 12 August 2026
A Sudanese woman sits with her child at the Al-Rahmaniya camp for displaced persons, near the city of El Obeid in the South Kordofan region of Sudan, on June 25, 2026. AFP

El-Obeid: fears of a new wave of brutality in Sudan

The central city is a strategic prize but increasingly encircled by the RSF paramilitary force. Home to almost a million people, a third of whom are already displaced, it could also be a bloodbath

Shawgi Abdelazim 04 August 2026
One of two gold necklaces made from more than 100 separate gold plates, decorated with images of goddesses such as Serapis, dating back to the second century AD. AFP

How Sudan’s war reshaped Egypt’s battle for gold

Egypt is cracking down on informal gold prospectors as it seeks to maximise the economic potential of its mining sector and attract new investment

Marcelle Nasr 09 July 2026
In his novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived', Sudanese novelist Mustafa Khalid Mustafa portrays war as a complex human experience.

Mustafa Khalid's latest novel distills the chaos of war

In his award-winning novel 'Haha... Cough Cough... I Miraculously Survived,' six narrators give different yet intersecting accounts of Sudan's nightmarish conflict

Mansour Al-Souaim 03 June 2026
A painting depicting people holding the Sudanese flag is seen on a wall damaged by bullets and shrapnel in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, on 23 April 2026. AP/Bernat Armangue

RSF defections: a turning point in Sudan's war?

The balance of power between the army and the militia that controls Darfur may be shifting, but which way is not yet clear

Areig Elhag 21 May 2026
An RSF fighter stands on a vehicle during a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on 22 June 2019. AP/Hussein Malla

Vanishing horizon: why Sudan’s civil war is getting harder to solve

There are fears that a divided country could yet splinter into a patchwork of overlapping fiefdoms led by warlords and terrorists, with neither a military nor diplomatic solution looking likely

Shawgi Abdelazim 21 May 2026
A Reuters reporter displays a video of RSF commander al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, known as Abu Lulu, on his phone. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

RSF defections may tip the balance in the Sudan war stalemate

The powerful militia controls half the country, battling the Sudanese Armed Forces for the rest, but has had several setbacks as of late, including defections to the other side

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 21 May 2026
Sudanese girls who fled El-Fasher receive humanitarian aid at the Al-Afad camp for displaced people in the town of Al-Dabba, northern Sudan, on 25 November 2025. EBRAHIM HAMID / AFP

The US-Iran war throws more hardship at Sudan

More than 21 million Sudanese face acute food shortages, despite no shortage of arable land. With war in Iran sending the cost of fuel and fertiliser soaring, famines are now being declared

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 04 April 2026
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posing after signing the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 7 August, 2026. PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP
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Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab
Noelia de Alda
Politics

How Gaza turned US public opinion against Israel

30 August 2026

Supporting Israel used to help politicians get elected, but with Americans far more critical of Tel Aviv's influence on US policy, it has now become a liability at the ballot box

Assal Rad
Axel Rangel Garcia
Science & Technology

How QR codes are reshaping the future of commerce

28 August 2026

The barcode has been the language of retail for more than half a century. Now, two-dimensional codes are giving products a new digital identity

Mohammed Mansour
Motorists drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz on 24 August 2026. AFP
Politics

The US is learning the wrong lessons in Iran

25 August 2026

Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence

Bret Devereaux
Axel Rangel Garcia
Culture & Social Affairs

The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity

27 August 2026

Sliman Mansour, the renowned Palestinian painter who used clay from his land to make his works after deciding to boycott art materials produced by Israel, has died at the age of 79

Farouk Yousif

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