Troops, including the Navy's SEAL Team 6, evacuated about 90 Americans from the U.S. embassy in Sudan over the weekend.
For more than a week, Khartoum, Sudan's capital city, has been the site of urban warfare — with gunshots ringing out in the city center and fighter jets thundering across apartment blocks.
Troops, including the Navy's SEAL Team 6, departed on Saturday from Camp Lemonnier, the American military base in Djibouti. After refueling in Ethiopia, they landed late at night in Sudan's capital. before heading back to Djibouti at 115 mph, protected overhead by attack aircraft. "We have deployed U.S. intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance assets to support land evacuation routes which Americans are using and we're moving naval assets within the region to provide support," he said.
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