Sudan’s army launched a major assault on Khartoum in a bid to recapture the capital from the Rapid Support Forces.

Sudan’s army launched a major offensive to recapture the country’s capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The escalation comes despite US-led efforts to broker a ceasefire.

The latest outbreak of fighting comes as nations gathered at the U.N. General Assembly called for an end to the war and for aid to be fast-tracked to millions in need.

Sudan's army launched artillery and air strikes 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.

It appears to be the army's first major offensive to regain the capital since the war began last year.

Sources within the Sudanese military and witnesses at the scene say Sudan’s army on Thursday launched an early morning offensive in the capital, Khartoum, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in what appeared to be the army’s biggest operation since the conflict began.