Sudan is no longer just another African civil war zone—it’s an emerging outpost in Iran’s global terror campaign against Israel and the West. The man at the heart of this transformation is General ...

Like many of his peers, Buay has been actively involved in military combat and combative politics from the 1980s to date. He ...

Our Victorian counterparts had rather more robust role models, none more so than General Gordon, hero of Khartoum. His bloody death at the hands of the fanatical Sudanese Mahdi Army on 26 January 1885 ...

Fractured by centuries of brutal slavery, colonialism, ethnic conflicts and underdevelopment, Sudan is a text-book case of everything that can go wrong with nations. It’s also a text-book case of how ...

It stands behind the colonial governor-general's residence where decorated British General Charles Gordon was killed by Sudanese fighters 140 years ago.

The older building is a highly symbolic structure. In 1885, followers of Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah famously killed the British major-general Charles George Gordon on the Republican Palace's stairs.

During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation. The story of General ...

Instead Gordon found himself besieged by the rebel forces. In his plan to defend the city, the siege ensued for almost a year until Mahdi forces finally overwhelmed Khartoum. General Gordon of ...

Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon.

The escalation in Khartoum and the failure of all diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting will worsen what is already one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, aid agencies fear.

CAIRO, July 20.--The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that he has received a dispatch from Gen. Gordon, dated June 22, saying that Khartoum and Sennaar were safe. Gen. Gordon had 8,000 men under his ...