Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier square off as General Charles Gordon and Muhammad Ahmad, respectively, in 1880s Sudan. Though far from perfect, it's an ambitious epic.

At least 12 mosques in Khartoum, El Fasher and El Geneina have been affected. “The religious sites and the clerics are being caught in the crossfire in a war between two generals who are Muslims.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Sudan's capital, Khartoum, was once a vibrant city of more than 6 million people before civil war exploded on its streets and consumed the country for more than two years.

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 ...

Khartoum, Sudan's capital city has recently been liberated by the Sudanese army after two years of occupation. NPR visited found a hollowed out and shattered city devastated by the civil war.

Journalists from The New York Times were the first from a Western outlet to cross the Nile, into central Khartoum, or to visit the palace, since the war erupted in April 2023. What we saw there ...