{"id":14427,"date":"2025-03-21T04:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/war-in-sudans-capital-approaches-turning-point-over-presidential-palace\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:33:18","slug":"war-in-sudans-capital-approaches-turning-point-over-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/war-in-sudans-capital-approaches-turning-point-over-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Sudan\u2019s Capital Approaches Turning Point Over Presidential Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sudanese military forces pushed toward the presidential palace in the battle-scarred capital, Khartoum, on Thursday, signaling a potential turning point in Sudan\u2019s devastating civil war, now approaching its third year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Video footage showed Sudanese troops about 500 yards east of the palace compound, which overlooks the river Nile, and is controlled by the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., the army\u2019s powerful paramilitary rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Capturing the palace would be a major symbolic victory for Sudan\u2019s army, which lost most of Khartoum to the R.S.F. in the early days of the war in April 2023. It would also significantly boost the military\u2019s six-month-old drive to push the paramilitaries out of the city entirely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Early on Thursday, the army launched a blistering ambush on an R.S.F. convoy south of the palace, video footage showed. For the rest of the day, gunfire and explosions could be heard across the capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The R.S.F. leader, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, has vowed to stand his ground. \u201cDo not think that we will retreat from the palace,\u201d he said last week in a video address from an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1053900426768960&amp;id=100064470384867&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=PVRnRLmtzXw1HTUt#\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> on Thursday, a senior R.S.F. adviser said any suggestion the group was fleeing the palace was \u201cjust lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military lost most of Khartoum in the early days of the war two years ago, but <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/26\/world\/africa\/sudan-army-operation-capital-khartoum.html\" title=\"\">launched a major counteroffensive<\/a> last September. Since then, the military has captured strategic bridges on the Nile and, in recent months, seized the north and east of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the R.S.F. has withdrawn from those areas, the war\u2019s grim toll has become starkly apparent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Entire districts have become a charred wasteland, as New York Times reporters saw during the past week in the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bullet-pocked vehicles lay scattered across deserted streets. Apartment blocks stood torched or looted, and banks were blown open. White smoke billowed from a giant wheat silo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the city center, army snipers trained their rifles through the windows of a deserted luxury apartment block overlooking the Nile. On the far bank, a riverboat slumped on its side. A surveillance drone buzzed overhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A lace curtain billowed around Sgt. Maj. Ismail Hassan as he peered through his binoculars at the bombed-out presidential palace, which sat amid a cluster of hollowed-out office blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey have many snipers deployed in the tall buildings,\u201d said the army officer. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes it so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The R.S.F.\u2019s best snipers came from Ethiopia, he said, citing military intelligence reports. A document found by The Times at a deserted R.S.F. base in the city, listing recent Ethiopian recruits, supported that idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By some estimates, the capital\u2019s prewar population of about eight million people has been reduced to two million. In recently recaptured areas, the army has moved residents to temporary camps on the edge of the city, where the army is screening for R.S.F. sympathizers, several residents said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For those still in the city, there was a palpable sense of relief the R.S.F. was gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn the days before they left, they demanded money,\u201d said Kamal Juma, 42, as he tapped water from a broken pipe in the street. \u201cIf you couldn\u2019t pay, they shot you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Juma mopped the sweat from his brow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe can\u2019t take any more of this war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even if the military manages to drive the R.S.F. from Khartoum, there is little prospect of the war ending soon, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What started as a power feud between two men \u2014 General Hamdan and the country\u2019s military chief, Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Burhan \u2014 has exploded into a much wider conflict fueled by a bewildering array of foreign powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United Arab Emirates is backing the R.S.F. with guns, drones and mercenaries, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/21\/world\/africa\/uae-sudan-civil-war.html\" title=\"\">The Times has reported<\/a>. That support has continued in recent months, even since the United States <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/07\/world\/africa\/sudan-rsf-genocide-us-sanctions.html\" title=\"\">accused the R.S.F. of genocide<\/a> in January, according to two Western officials and some <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepSaraJacobs\/status\/1899581961552719885\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">American lawmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Emirates denies backing the paramilitaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the other side, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have sold, supplied or paid for weapons to Sudan\u2019s military, the two Western officials said on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In parts of the city, wild bushes sprouted in empty streets, adding to the apocalyptic air. Faded billboards, erected before the war, advertised goods at one-tenth of their current prices \u2014 a reflection of war\u2019s crushing economic cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the picture is markedly different in Omdurman, west of the Nileand controlled by the army. Here, markets and restaurants are bustling, and even jewelry stores have reopened as residents stream back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even here, though, death is never far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday night, a volley of R.S.F. rockets landed in a quiet street where six neighbors had gathered under a palm tree to drink coffee after fasting for Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After an explosion rocked his house, Moamer Atiyatallah stumbled through the cloud of dust, calling out to his friends under the palm tree, \u201cWhat happened, guys?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nobody answered. All six men \u2014 a carpenter, an auto trader and a rickshaw driver, among others \u2014 had been killed, as well as two other men who were passing in the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An hour after the strike, wailing women had spilled into the dark street, where stony-faced men picked up scraps of flesh from the ground and gathered them into plastic bags. A distraught young girl ran past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFather!\u201d she screamed. \u201cFather!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Abdalrahman Altayeb<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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