On September 9, 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to deliver much-anticipated testimony on the crisis in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. Eighteen minutes into his remarks, he became the first executive branch official in U.S. history to declare an ongoing conflict a “genocide.”

Amid what a Catholic charity called "unimaginable" suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is committing genocide in the country and slapped sanctions on its leader.

Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he regretted his inability to end the brutal war in Sudan and voiced hope that President-elect Donald Trump's administration will keep trying.

Peace is so hard to find in Sudan because both sides are focused on absolute victory rather than negotiations, according to a member of the bishops’ conference.

The horrific atrocities committed against the Sudanese should be labeled as genocide. But why is the U.S. unable to apply that same standard to Israel?

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed genocide over the course of the more than year-long civil war in Sudan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

The incoming Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has blasted the Biden Admnin for waiting until just 13 days before their term ends to declare atrocities in Sudan’s war as genocide.

The move comes over a week after the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.