Iran’s Hidden Hand in Sudan: Proxy Wars Fuel Human Tragedy

Late last year, I walked through camps in Darfur where entire families had been erased by militias, where children stared at me with hollowed eyes, carrying the weight of trauma too deep for their age. Mothers whispered of nights they pretended their babies were asleep while hiding scraps of food. Fathers sat silent, broken, unable to protect their wives from the violence around them. The world barely notices. And now, the same horrors are multiplying.

While global attention remains fixed on wars elsewhere in the Middle East, Iran is quietly waging a shadow war in Sudan, where Tehran is emerging as a decisive backer of the increasingly Islamist military, the Sudanese Armed Forces.