Darfur campaign (2023–present)

Darfur campaign
	Part of Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
	; Military situation as of 12 September 2025
Date	15 April 2023 – present; (2 years, 11 months and 1 day)
Location	Darfur (with spillovers into Chad and South Sudan)
Status	Ongoing Rapid Support Forces control all of South Darfur, Central Darfur, East Darfur, and West Darfur; RSF forces capture strategic cities such as Geneina, Kabkabiya, Um Dafuq, Ed Daein, Kutum, Nyala, and El Fasher; The Sudan Liberation Movement controls parts of Darfur including the town of Tawila;
Belligerents
Government of Peace and Unity (from April 2025) Rapid Support Forces Various Arab tribes; ; ; Coalition of Patriots for Change (since August 2023); Desert Wolves	Sudanese government Sudanese Armed Forces; JEM; SLM (Minnawi); ; ; Darfur Joint Protection Force (from November 2023) Sudanese National Alliance; Gathering of Sudan Liberation Forces; ; Chadian rebels (alleged) Liberated Areas SLM (al-Nur); ;
Commanders and leaders
Abdelrahim Dagalo; Abdel Rahman Jumma; Ali Yaqoub Gibril †; Salih Al-Foti; Hassan Saleh Nahar ; Noureddine Adam (WIA)	Gibril Ibrahim (JEM); Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) Abdul Wahid al-Nur;
Units involved
20th Infantry Division	91st Infantry Brigade
Casualties and losses
	10,000+ killed; Thousands of civilians killed and injured ; 60% of the population flees.

The Darfur campaign, also known as the Darfur offensive, is a theatre of operation in the war in Sudan that affects five states in Darfur: South Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, Central Darfur and West Darfur. The offensive mainly started on 15 April 2023 in West Darfur where the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) forces captured Geneina, the conflict came after several days of high tensions between the forces and the government.

The Battle of Geneina and the Battle of Nyala were the largest battles of the campaign, which all in total killed hundreds of civilians and both ended up with a RSF victory between 20 April to 2 May 2023.