TEHRAN (FNA)- Rebels captured Bentiu, the capital of a key oil-producing region in South Sudan, the government announced. At the same time the UN announced it will deploy more forces to the region as clashes between ethnic groups continue, RT reported. President Salva Kiir Mayardit, an ethnic Dinka, said that the recent violence was triggered ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- At least two US evacuation flights from South Sudan have been fired on, causing some injuries, said reports from Uganda, where the planes landed. The US military aircraft were heading to Bor, the capital of the state of Jonglei and scene of some of the nation's worst violence over the last week, Voice of Russia reported. One of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Rebels raided three cattle camps in a remote part of South Sudan's restive Jonglei state on Sunday, killing at least 41 people and wounding dozens of others, authorities said. The attackers, armed with automatic weapons and suspected to be loyalists of militia leader David Yau Yau, shot indiscriminately at the camps and stole ...