South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In-Opposition ...

The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

First Vice President Riek Machar reportedly arrested after armed convoy led by government officials entered his residence in ...

Dr. Machar, who has led the SPLM-IO since its inception, remains under arbitrary detention following a suspicious and ...

South Sudan's military has regained control of Nasir, a critical town in Upper Nile state, amid political turbulence and ...

That status expires on May 3. The euphoria of independence turned to civil war two years later, when rival factions backing ...

South Sudan's main opposition party seeks an international probe into alleged rights abuses in recent fighting that saw ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said the cause of death was a stroke that put him into a coma and led to ...

A group of senior SPLM-IO party members in Juba on Wednesday endorsed Stephen Par Kuol, the country’s peacebuilding minister, ...

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.

Machar rejoined the SPLA in 2002, and after a 2005 peace deal that ended civil war and established southern autonomy, he became vice-president of the South, retaining the position after South ...