Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

An airstrike on the last functional hospital in Sudan's El Fasher killed around 70 people, escalating the country's ongoing civil war.

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sund

There are legitimate fears that the thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted murderers and terrorist leaders, to be freed in exchange for the hostages could replenish Hamas' ranks.

Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023.

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Youssef is scheduled to visit Iran within the next month to bolster bilateral cooperation.

Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

Local officials have attributed the drone attack that killed 70 people to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) condemned on Sunday a drone attack on a Saudi hospital in El Fasher city in western Sudan a day earlier. More than 70 people were killed in a ...

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan on Jan 25. (AP)

Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the building, which had been encircled by paramilitary fighters since the war erupted

The attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital came as the group has seen apparent battlefield losses to the Sudanese military and allied forces under the command of army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan.