Sudan Army Launches Air Strikes on Paramilitary Positions in Khartoum

Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital. The clashes began at dawn, with the army’s first major offensive in months against the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Since April 2023, the paramilitaries had pushed the army nearly all the way out of Khartoum, following a war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and former deputy RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The army regained parts of Omdurman in a previous offensive in February. Residents reported intense artillery shelling, bombs falling on residential buildings, and military warplanes flying overhead. The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced over 10 million people, and created a severe humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.