Sudanese Army Says Troops Drove Out Rebels; Attack Threatens Progress Made at Peace Talks to End Darfur Region Conflict

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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese soldiers inflicted "heavy casualties" in driving off rebels who overran a town in the troubled Darfur region, the military said Wednesday.

A United Nations official, George Somerwill, said the world body also heard from the region that Sudan Liberation Army fighters retreated late Tuesday from the area around Sheiria, a town of 33,000 people in southern Darfur.

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Sudanese Army Says Troops Drove Out Rebels; Attack Threatens Progress Made at Peace Talks to End Darfur Region Conflict

Several hundred rebels captured the town Monday, violating a truce reached in December for Sudan's vast western region, where ethnic fighting that broke ou...

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