US special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy violence-torn Sudan, US officials said late Saturday, sweeping in and out of the capital, Khartoum, with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported.
With the last US employee of the embassy out, Washington shuttered the US mission in Khartoum indefinitely. Left behind are thousands of Americans remaining in Sudan, with officials saying it would be too dangerous to carry out a broader evacuation mission, The Associated Press said.
