Timeline:Sudan

Dated events for Sudan, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-25

• Port Sudan detainees launch hunger strike over ‘endless’ trial delays - dabanga
• South Sudan: Two UN peacekeepers killed, seven injured - africanews
• Sudan announces it intercepted a drone from Ethiopia - rfi_afrique
• US moots expanding Darfur arms embargo to cover drones and all of Sudan - dabanga

2026-08-24

• Ambush in South Sudan kills peacekeeping troops - aljazeera
• Security Council LIVE: War, hunger, flooding escalates in Sudan - unnews
• Two UN peacekeepers killed in South Sudan ambush - unnews

2026-08-23

• Video: Thousands of families flee fighting in Sudan’s North Kordofan State - aljazeera

2026-08-21

• ‘Takaya’ community kitchen closures threaten 50,000 families in Sudan capital - dabanga

2026-06-23

• Dispatch from Ukraine - Brookings

2026-06-08

• Show Us the Money - Foreign Policy

2026-06-06

• Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il

2026-05-28

• How pro-Israel trolls exploit the people of Sudan and the DRC - Middle East Eye

2026-05-27

• Is Accountability in Syria Possible? - Pulitzer Center

2026-05-15

• Nicholas Kristof and Death By a Thousand Cuts - The Free Press

2026-05-01

• Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-27

• The Art of the Nuclear Deal - The New York Times

2026-04-26

• Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-25

• Tracking Chinese and Russian Statements on the Iran War - The Washington Institute

2026-04-17

• Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

• Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-04-06

• New Airstrikes Batter Tehran - The New York Times

2026-04-01

• Smirking Past the Gallows - The Atlantic

2026-03-27

• The Blogs: Dazed and Confused - The Times of Israel

2026-03-25

• Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
• The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-05

• Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-28

• Iran After the Ayatollah - Christianity Today

2026-02-27

• Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-10

• Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-09

• The Gap between Perception and Reality - The Times of Israel

2026-01-19

• How Turkey and Damascus Engineered a Kurdish Defeat - Modern Diplomacy

2026-01-15

• Statement from Spain and France on Turkey. - haber7.com

2025-12-23

• A Real Negotiation Process - RAND

2025-12-12

• Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-08

• Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera

2025-12-07

• The Road to Damascus - Al Jazeera

2025-11-28

• Sudan truces, West Bank evictions, and Trump immigration orders: The Cheat Sheet - The New Humanitarian

2025-11-19

• Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) - Iran Watch

2025-11-18

• Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-11-12

• Iran’s Hidden Hand in Sudan: Proxy Wars Fuel Human Tragedy - maternaldispatches.com - gnews

2025-10-28

• How Israel is winning the wars and losing the peace - NPR

2025-10-26

• Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-14

• Opinion | Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things - The New York Times

2025-10-13

• Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-09

• Cruise Missiles Are the Present and Future of Warfare - RAND

2025-10-08

• Apocalypse in Gulf is now or never - Deccan Herald

2025-10-01

• Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
• Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-30

• Houthi Expansion Into Sudan Threatens a Wider Conflict - Middle East Forum

2025-09-29

• Close to The Edge - Nowlebanon

2025-09-26

• Israel - General Debate

2025-09-24

• Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

• Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
• History of the Kaaba - TRT World

2025-09-16

• UAE, Sudan trade accusations over illegal arms transfers - TRT World

2025-09-12

• Survival Over Defection - persuasion.community - gnews

2025-09-05

• Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-04

• Disarmament or Diversion? Berri’s Maneuver and Hezbollah’s Outsourcing - Nowlebanon

2025-09-03

• Busiest Ocean Trade Route - Marine Insight

2025-08-29

• US Military Redeployment in Iraq: Strategic Withdrawal or Tactical Shift? - Geopolitical Monitor

2025-08-26

• UAE Ban on Cargoes From Sudan in Focus as Crude Tanker Idles - gCaptain - gnews
• Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

• Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

• Area: 1,861,484 sq km - CIA World Factbook
• Background: After the fall of Kush, the Nubians formed three Christian kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia, with the latter two enduring until around 1500. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: By the 11th century B.C., the Kingdom of Kush gained independence from Egypt; it lasted in various forms until the middle of the 4th century A.D. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) until it was absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt. - CIA World Factbook
• Branches: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Ground Force (Sudanese Army), Sudanese Navy, Sudanese Air Force; Rapid Support Forces (RSF); Border Guards; ; Ministry of Interior: Sudan Police Forces (SPF), Central Reserve Police (CRP) (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Capital: Khartoum - CIA World Factbook
• Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021) - CIA World Factbook
• Climate: hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November) - CIA World Factbook
• Equipment: the SAF's inventory includes a mix of mostly Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and some domestically produced weapons systems; Sudan has a state-run defense industry, which mostly manufactures copies of foreign-supplied armaments, such as armored vehicles, under license (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Ethnic groups: Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Ingessana, Uduk, Fallata, Masalit, Dajo, Gimir, Tunjur, Berti; there are over 500 ethnic groups - CIA World Factbook
• Government type: presidential republic - CIA World Factbook
• Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur - CIA World Factbook
• Legal system: mixed system of Islamic law and English common law - CIA World Factbook
• Life expectancy: 67.8 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Location: north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea - CIA World Factbook
• Major urban areas: 6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023) - CIA World Factbook
• Median age: 19.5 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Natural resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower - CIA World Factbook
• Personnel: prior to the outbreak of fighting between the SAF and the RSF in 2023, size estimates for Sudan's armed forces varied widely: up to 200,000 SAF; up to 100,000 RSF; up to 80,000 Central Reserve Police (2023) - CIA World Factbook
• Population: 50,467,278 (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Religions: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority - CIA World Factbook
• Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north - CIA World Factbook
• Urbanization: 36.3% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook