Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through Darfur, Sudan, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multiday attack, doctors and the U.N. said.

As fighting in Sudan's capital continues to rage, experts say it's spilling over into the Darfur region and risks fully reigniting a conflict from the early 2000s that left hundreds of thousands dead.

Human Rights Watch said the campaign of attacks on the non-Arab people in Darfur, including the Masalit, with the "apparent objective" of pushing them out, "constitutes ethnic cleansing." ...

In 2003 a militia drawn from ethnic Arab tribes in Darfur known as the Janjaweed partnered with the government of Sudan in a genocidal campaign against non-Arab tribes in the region. An estimated ...

The world must act.” The conflict has reached a new pitch with the assassination of the governor of West Darfur, apparently at the hands of Arab militiamen, on June 14.

Darfur had been the scene of genocidal war in the early 2000s, when ethnic Africans rebelled, accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination.

WADI ANKA, Sudan -- Ahmad Salaheddin is an Arab who has crossed the ethnic divide in Darfur's bloody war to fight alongside ethnic African rebels. His fellow rebels jokingly call him a "janjaweed ...

Analysis The Arab World and Darfur August 14, 200412:00 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Scott Simon ...

The group said its members came from mostly Arab tribes -- the Rizeigat, Habbaniya, Terjem, Beni Halba, Taasha -- and the non-Arab Fellata tribe. They are mostly based in West and South Darfur ...

CAIRO, Oct. 8 -- Arab countries have launched a new effort to push Sudan toward a compromise over U.N. peacekeepers for Darfur, offering to dispatch a force of Arab and Muslim troops to the ...

Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through a town in Sudan's war-ravaged region of Darfur, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multiday attack ...

CAIRO — Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through a town in Sudan ’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multi ...