More than two years after the start of Sudan's civil war, the nation's military has ceded nearly all of Darfur to a paramilitary group in an effort to prevent more death and destruction there.

Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday took control of El Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur region and its army's headquarters, more than a year and a half after it started launching drone and artillery strikes on hospitals and homes, The New York Times reported.

"The leadership there, including security, made assessments that they have to leave the city due to the systematic destruction and killing of civilians," Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of Sudan's military, said in a televised statement to the country.

Reports of mass graves, random killings and the targeting of civilian infrastructure have sp

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