For decades, the Spurs spent spring after spring gearing up for a playoff run likely to go into late June. Local basketball fans did not have the time or inclination to care much about the NCAA ...

“After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once again on the brink of civil war,” German Foreign Minister Annalena ...

Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the ...

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war ...

"Because of the war in Sudan, South Sudan's main oil export pipeline burst one year again and South Sudan is a petro-state ...

The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country ...

Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil ...

South Sudan’s government has asked civilians to leave a northern area a day after the army conducted an airstrike against an armed group accused of overrunning a military base and attacking a U.N ...

Civil war has raged across Sudan for almost two years now, spreading millions of refugees around east Africa including into ...

and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and ...

Zhang Meng/Xinhua News Agency/picture alliance The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — which hold nearly all of Sudan's western Darfur region and parts of the south — recently signed a charter ...