{"id":61923,"date":"2026-07-18T16:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61923"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:04:33","slug":"army-advances-in-el-obeid-as-rsf-forces-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/army-advances-in-el-obeid-as-rsf-forces-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Advances in El-Obeid as RSF Forces Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Military and field sources told Ultra Sudan that the Sudanese Armed Forces had made territorial gains in recent hours on the western front of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, following clashes with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), amid reports that the latter had withdrawn from several positions around the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to military sources, the army and allied forces continued their offensive operations west of El-Obeid and succeeded in advancing on the ground, forcing RSF fighters to pull back from some of their positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Local sources confirmed that sounds of fighting were heard in the western areas of the city, while military movements were observed on nearby roads over the past few hours, without significantly affecting conditions inside El-Obeid, where residents remain on high alert.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military and field sources told Ultra Sudan that the Sudanese Armed Forces had made territorial gains in recent hours on the western front of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, following clashes with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), amid reports that the latter had withdrawn from several positions around the city. According to military &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61924,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61923\/revisions\/61924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}