An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates ...

Sudanese army forces advancing on Khartoum converged on Monday with troops in the capital's centre, a military spokesman said ...

forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two ...

Deep internal divisions may presage another partition of the country, just over a decade since the establishment of South ...

South Sudanese soldiers have surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital and several of his allies were ...

One person working with the United Nations peace-keeping mission to South Sudan and several members of the South Sudan People ...

The U.N. is warning of “an alarming regression that could erase years of hard-won progress” in South Sudan. The latest tensions stem from fighting in the country's north between government ...

The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan's capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north. The travel advisory issued on ...

Gabriel Duop Lam, also loyal to Machar, was detained Tuesday over the fighting in the north, while Machar ally ... what he called a "full-scale war." South Sudan is yet to fully implement the ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him ...