The United States has begun facilitating the departure of private U.S. citizens who want to leave Sudan, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan said the U.S. has placed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets over the land evacuation route to help facilitate safe travel by land from Khartoum to the Port of Sudan, but does not have any U.S. troops on the ground.
People evacuated from Sudan arrive at a military airport in Amman on April 24, 2023. - Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan as deadly fighting raged into a second week between forces loyal to two rival generals. said three Sudanese employees were shot dead by members of the Rapid Support Forces as they stormed a military base in Kabkabiya, North Darfur, on Saturday, April 15.
Smoke billows over residential buildings in eastern Khartoum on April 22, 2023, during ongoing battles between the forces of two rival generals. - Fighting in Sudan's capital entered a second week today as crackling gunfire shattered a temporary truc"It is not standard practice for the United States to send in the U.S. military" into warzones to extract American citizens, Sullivan said "We didn’t do it in Libya. We didn’t do it in Syria.
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