Sudan's army launched artillery and airstrikes in Sudan's capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses and military sources said.

Sudan's army has launched a major offensive against the powerful paramilitary group it is fighting in the country's civil war, targeting areas in the capital it lost at the start of the conflict. In dawn strikes on Thursday, government forces shelled Rapid Support Forces (RSF) bases in the capital Khartoum, and Bahri to its north.

Sudan's army launched its largest offensive in the capital, Khartoum, to reclaim territory from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) before General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's U.N. speech. The conflict has resulted in extensive casualties,

Sudan's army has begun attacking paramilitary positions in the capital in a bid to regain ground. Witnesses reported heavy shelling and fighting as army troops tried to cross bridges across the Nile connecting the three adjoining cities that make up the greater capital: Khartoum,

Sudan's army on Thursday launched a major offensive to retake areas in the capital Khartoum held by the Rapid Support Forces since the early days of the 17-month-old civil war, according to witnesses and sources.