{"id":181344,"date":"2024-09-26T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-air-strikes-in-khartoum-as-sudan-army-attacks-paramilitary-positions\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:10:14","slug":"sudan-air-strikes-in-khartoum-as-sudan-army-attacks-paramilitary-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-air-strikes-in-khartoum-as-sudan-army-attacks-paramilitary-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Air Strikes in Khartoum As Sudan Army Attacks Paramilitary Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Port Sudan \u2014 <em> Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital, eyewitnesses and a military source told AFP. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The clashes began at dawn, several residents reported, in what appeared to be the army&#8217;s first major offensive in months to regain parts of the capital controlled by its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Sudanese army forces were &#8220;waging fierce fighting against the rebel militia inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/khartoum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khartoum<\/a>&#8220;, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409260391.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Sudan \u2014 Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital, eyewitnesses and a military source told AFP. The clashes began at dawn, several residents reported, in what appeared to be the army&#8217;s first major offensive in months to regain parts of the capital controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7832,4361,306,1616,257,21090,9323,254,3292,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-181344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-army","tag-attacks","tag-khartoum","tag-news","tag-paramilitary","tag-positions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}