RSF Claims Seizing Significant Areas of ‘Armored Camp’ in Khartoum

A picture distributed by the Rapid Support Forces on Sunday around the headquarters of the Armored Camp south of Khartoum, Sudan (Asharq Al-Awsat)
A picture distributed by the Rapid Support Forces on Sunday around the headquarters of the Armored Camp south of Khartoum, Sudan (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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RSF Claims Seizing Significant Areas of ‘Armored Camp’ in Khartoum

A picture distributed by the Rapid Support Forces on Sunday around the headquarters of the Armored Camp south of Khartoum, Sudan (Asharq Al-Awsat)
A picture distributed by the Rapid Support Forces on Sunday around the headquarters of the Armored Camp south of Khartoum, Sudan (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Monday their successful seizure of substantial portions of the “Armored Camp,” which belongs to the Sudanese Army, across multiple fronts to the south of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

According to the RSF, this operation inflicted significant human casualties and damage to military equipment.

In an official statement released under the name of the RSF spokesperson, the paramilitary group disclosed that the army’s troops fled and sought refuge within some adjacent camp buildings, where they are now being pursued.

The statement detailed that the RSF managed to secure a significant amount of military equipment, including weapon depots, ammunition, 34 armored vehicles, tanks, 12 artillery pieces, and 78 vehicles.

Additionally, they reported the deaths of 260 soldiers and the capture of hundreds.

Previously, the RSF had released a video showing their personnel within the headquarters of the Army’s Armored Division located in the Shagara area south of Khartoum.

Meanwhile, fierce battles were taking place in the southern part of Omdurman.

Eyewitnesses attested that the RSF launched a renewed assault on the Armored Division’s headquarters on Monday morning. They succeeded in breaching its defenses.

On their official Facebook page, the RSF shared video clips of their members operating from within the fortifications of the “Armored Camp,” which they referred to as the “strategic fortress of remnants.”

In the early hours of Sunday, the RSF initiated an intense attack on the Armored Camp from three different fronts.

The army issued a statement acknowledging their successful defense of the Shagara Camp against the assault, resulting in hundreds of attackers being either killed or wounded.

They also mentioned the destruction of five armored vehicles, tanks, and combat vehicles after the RSF attempted to flee.

The army statement confirmed that “the RSF launched mortar shells during their withdrawal, resulting in the deaths of six civilians and the injury of several others.”

Witnesses also reported that the sounds of reciprocal artillery bombardment between the RSF and the army, along with the explosions reverberating across the southern regions of Khartoum since the morning, continue unabated.



Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
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Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed at least 29 Palestinians, including six children near a water distribution point.

The attacks came with apparent deadlock in a week of indirect talks in Qatar between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire in the territory.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that Gaza City was hit by several strikes overnight and in the early morning, killing eight, "including women and children" and wounding others.

An Israeli airstrike hit a family home near the Nuseirat refugee camp, south of Gaza City, resulting in "10 martyrs and several injured", Bassal said.

In central Gaza, six children were among eight people killed when a drone "hit a potable water distribution point in an area for displaced people" in the Nuseirat camp, he added.

Several other people were wounded, he said.

In the territory's south, three people were killed when Israeli jets hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the coastal Al-Mawasi area, according to the civil defense spokesman.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has recently intensified its operations across Gaza, more than 21 months into the war triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack.

On Saturday, the military said fighter jets had hit more than 35 "Hamas terror targets" around Beit Hanun in northern Gaza.

The vast majority of Gaza's population of more than two million people have been displaced at least once during the war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions in the territory.

Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify tolls and details provided by the civil defense agency and other parties.