Sudan’s army says it has wrested control of the capital Khartoum from a feared militia accused of genocide after ousting it from the Presidential Palace and the city’s airport it had held since the start of a brutal two-year conflict.

The Sudanese army said it had wrested back full control of Khartoum, nearly two years after losing the capital to rival paramilitaries, capping a weeklong blitz that saw it recapture the presidential palace,

The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, residents said, after declaring victory over their Rapid Support Forces rivals in a two-year battle for the capital.

Family members of some of the 67 people killed in January’s midair collision in Washington listened to the US Army and Federal Aviation Administration take fiery questions from lawmakers for the first time Thursday at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the preliminary findings of the accident.

If investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the midair collision over the nation's capital that killed 67 people in January, then aviation safety regulators should have seen the problem,

A search and recovery effort is underway for the soldiers, who are all from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.

The deaths of four U.S. Army soldiers have not been confirmed, despite earlier comments from NATO’s secretary-general offering condolences for their deaths.

A statement from U.S. Army Europe and Africa public affairs in Wiesbaden, Germany said the soldiers were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time.