By: Al-Tayyib Qassim Al-Sayed
Reports and news across various platforms and channels have described the severe blow dealt by the Sudanese Armed Forces and their allied joint forces, as announced yesterday by the official military spokesperson. The army and joint forces’ capture of the Al-Zurq military base in North Darfur, along with surrounding bases, towns, and outposts, has been characterized as the most significant and impactful strike on the insurgent terrorist militia. The devastating loss inflicted on the militia’s personnel, equipment, and supplies at this strategic site—fortified by the militia as a repository for its strategic stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and logistical resources since the beginning of the war—is unprecedented.
Analysts have varied in their assessments of the scale, nature, and implications of this strike on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The militia’s media apparatus, accustomed to rhetoric that distracts from their consistent defeats and heavy losses, continues to try to deflect attention from the military’s advancements. The Sudanese Armed Forces have advanced in their war against this fragmented, mercenary militia.
Interestingly, even media outlets known for their overt bias toward the militia and its backers could not ignore the event. Some reported it with a tone of astonishment and fear. Observers of Sudan’s imposed war recognize the strategic importance of the Al-Zurq base. Situated near the tri-border region between Sudan, Chad, and Libya, it has served as a critical corridor for weapons, tools of terror, and resources fueling the violence, displacement, and destruction that have plagued Sudan, its people, and its institutions.
Some analysts have connected the event to broader plans and partnerships among key actors behind Sudan’s current war. These include alliances aimed at exploiting Sudan’s wealth, resources, and strategic location, as well as undermining its Arab-Islamic-African cultural identity. This analysis points to the alleged complicity of the United States, Britain, and some regional actors in igniting the ongoing war to target Sudan’s resources.
Despite the widespread coverage of the military’s capture of Al-Zurq, which coincided with victories across other fronts and imminent offensives, this specific triumph stands out as the most crushing blow to the militia since the war began. Securing Al-Zurq underscores, as many have noted, the beginning of the end for the RSF militia. It sends a resounding message of their inevitable defeat.
