{"id":241373,"date":"2026-08-18T08:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-armed-forces-shoot-down-second-drone-in-bara-north-kordofan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:25:54","slug":"sudan-armed-forces-shoot-down-second-drone-in-bara-north-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-armed-forces-shoot-down-second-drone-in-bara-north-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Armed Forces Shoot Down Second Drone in Bara, North Kordofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">KHARTOUM, August 17, 2026 (SUNA) &#8212; The Sudanese Armed Forces announced that the air defence forces had shot down an enemy FH-95 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the Bara area of North Kordofan State, marking the second drone downed by the Armed Forces in the area on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement, the Armed Forces said: &#8220;With Allah&#8217;s help and guidance, our forces succeeded in shooting down an enemy FH-95 drone in the Bara area of North Kordofan State, the second aircraft to be shot down today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608180143.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>KHARTOUM, August 17, 2026 (SUNA) &#8212; The Sudanese Armed Forces announced that the air defence forces had shot down an enemy FH-95 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the Bara area of North Kordofan State, marking the second drone downed by the Armed Forces in the area on Monday. In a statement, the Armed Forces said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9663,53845,23813,5097,7404,257,6732,14886,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-241373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-bara","tag-drone","tag-forces","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-north","tag-shoot","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/241373","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=241373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}