KHARTOUM—The United Nations warned on Monday that the conflict in Sudan could force 800,000 people to flee the country as battles between rival military factions persisted in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded over 16 days of battles since disputes between the Sudanese army and the…

The ongoing violent conflict in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group will be paused temporarily after both sides agreed to a three-day ceasefire, the U.S. State Department said on April 24. The nationwide ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will begin at midnight local time and follows “intense negotiations over the…

The Chinese communist regime’s cease-fire proposal for the Russia-Ukraine war has met with skepticism as the international community questions the regime’s neutrality. Experts said the regime is using the peace deal to divide the West. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” on the official website…

A 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, announced a day earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin, went into effect at noon (Moscow time) along the 680-mile frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces. “At noon today, the ceasefire regime came into force on the entire contact line,” Russian state media reported at midday on Jan. 6. “It will continue…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a ceasefire with Russia without reclaiming lost territories would only prolong the war, according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday. He warned that a ceasefire that allows Russia to keep Ukrainian territories seized since the invasion in February would only encourage an even wider conflict, giving…

Ukraine and Russia appear to have found some common ground amid ceasefire talks, according to information released from both sides. “The only thing we confirm at this stage is a ceasefire, withdrawal of Russian troops and security guarantees from a number of countries,” Mykhailo Podoliyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote in a Twitter…

No progress has been made on a 24-hour ceasefire in Ukraine, much less on an end to the war, according to the country’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, who discussed the matter with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Turkey on Thursday. “We also raised the issue of a 24-hour ceasefire to resolve the most pressing…

Officials in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have paused an evacuation of their residents, accusing Russian forces of violating a ceasefire deal and resuming shelling, while Russia’s defense ministry claimed its troops had come under fire after setting up humanitarian corridors. The Mariupol City Council said in a March 5 statement on Telegram that…

News Analysis NEW DELHI—India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire for the first time in two decades on their heavily militarized, disputed border in late February, a development experts said was influenced by the situation in Afghanistan. The ceasefire can’t be seen as an independent incident and there’s a regional context to the situation that’s determined…

MOSCOW—Azerbaijan captured six Armenian servicemen in the early hours of Thursday morning, the defense ministries of both countries said, the latest twist in a simmering border dispute. The Azeri defense ministry accused the Armenian soldiers of trying to cross into Azeri territory. Armenia’s defense ministry said its soldiers had been carrying out engineering work in…