U.S.: Sudan tries to intimidate U.N. troop contributors
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The United States demanded on Thursday that the U.N. Security Council respond to Sudan's warning that any nation pledging U.N. troops for Darfur was committing a "hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion."
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM  - The United States  accused Sudan on Thursday of using attack helicopters against  African villagers and said the United Nations was not being  tough enough on Khartoum.
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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The United States distributed a draft U.N. resolution Wednesday that threatens consideration of sanctions on Sudan's oil industry if Khartoum fails to stem violence in the Darfur region of Sudan or blocks the deployment of thousands of African monitors.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she pressed Sudan's government to accept a U.N. force in the war-torn region of Darfur, warning improved U.S. relations depended on it.
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In a bold move, the United States is taking the United Nations Security Council on the road this week to help end the violence and terrible suffering in Sudan.
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The top U.N. humanitarian  official accused Sudan on Wednesday of deliberately hindering  relief aid in Darfur, attacking villages and arming brutal  militia to combat rebels and bandits.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday  accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in  war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action  to protect civilians there.
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U.S. lawmakers who met with Darfur rebels in western Sudan and visited camps for Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend said they will be ask Washington to push for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
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The United States is focusing on the Arab world for help in pressing Sudan to accept U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur to stop the violence and provide humanitarian relief. But Arab countries are more likely to support Sudan's rejection of such a deployment, analysts say.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.
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The U.S. ambassador to the  United Nations on Tuesday strongly criticized Sudan's decision  to promote to a government post a man Washington has accused of  coordinating Darfur's marauding militias.
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The United States and Denmark sought   on Friday to increase world pressure on Sudan to accept U.N.   peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur, warning that time was running   out as Khartoum launched a new offensive there.
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The United States circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Monday calling for a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to help enforce a peace deal in southern Sudan, but it stopped short of saying how war crimes suspects in the separate conflict in Darfur should be tried.
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The United States pressed Sudan on   Monday to accept a U.N. force in its troubled Darfur region, as   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Khartoum its military   bombardment of the region was illegal.
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The United States demanded an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday over a letter in which Sudan's government said it would view any troop commitments to a future force in Darfur as a "hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion."
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in the Darfur region that the United States has called genocide...