By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, TomDispatch, July 27, 2023

Its been devastating, even if no ones paying attention.

Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Force (RSF) has left at least 3,000 people dead and wounded at least 6,000 more. Over two million people have been displaced within the country, while another 700,000 have fled to neighboring nations. According to the World Health Organization, two-thirds of the health facilities in Khartoum, the capital, and other combat zones are now out of service, so the numbers of dead and injured are believed to be far higher than recorded, and bodies have been rotting for days in the streets of the capital, as well as in the towns and villages of the Darfur region.

Almost all foreign nationals, including diplomats and embassy staff, are long gone and so, according to Al Jazeera, hundreds or thousands of Sudanese who had visa applications pending have instead found themselves marooned in the crossfire with their passports locked away inside now-abandoned embassies. In the Darfur region, according to non-Arab tribal leaders, the RSF and local Arab militias have been carrying out mass killings, raping women and girls, and looting and burning homes and hospitals. Earlier this month, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths...

• On July 24, a U.S. logistical convoy was targeted by IED attack in the Babil province;
• On July 24, a Turkish serviceman was killed in northern Iraq during the Operation Claw Lock, according to the Turkish MOD;
• Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and PUK leader Bafel Talabani met in Baghdad.

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