After nearly two years of brutal civil war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary rapid support forces, a potential turning point.

The army recaptured the presidential palace and the center of the capital city Khartoum last week.

Our William Brangham gets a dispatch from the ground.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Sudan's civil war,

and the fighting has triggered the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world,

with an estimated 14.6 million people displaced.

Both sides are credibly accused of committing war crimes,

and the U.S. has accused the paramilitaries of committing a genocide.

The New York Times, Declan Walsh, is in Khartoum, and he joins us now. Declan, thank you so much

for being here. You and photographer Yvore Prickett were among the first into Khartoum after the army

made the substantial gains and retook the center of the city and the presidential palace.

Can you tell us what it is you first saw when you entered the city?

We found when we crossed the River Nile into that city center area that until just days earlier had been held by the RSF for the previous two years, we found these scenes

of utter destruction, almost apocalyptic. You know, we drove along the Nile, all of the buildings,

the government buildings that symbolized power and authority in Sudan, the army headquarters,

various ministries, and finally getting to the presidential palace,

the old lay in ruins. There were destroyed cars everywhere. Many shops had been looted.

And it was just this picture of a city that has been really bent low after two years of war.

You reported that there is still fighting ongoing outside of the city.

So is there any sense that this victory by the army could be a turning point in the war?

I think there's little doubt, William, that this is certainly a major moment in the war.

The paramilitaries have had held the capital from the first days of the

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