{"id":61992,"date":"2026-08-12T20:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61992"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:50:05","slug":"army-shoots-down-drones-attempting-to-target-khartoum-and-atbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/army-shoots-down-drones-attempting-to-target-khartoum-and-atbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Shoots Down Drones Attempting to Target Khartoum and Atbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone attack on Wednesday morning targeting the cities of Atbara, Omdurman, and Khartoum Bahri.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Khartoum State, the army\u2019s air defenses intercepted several RSF drones in the early hours of Wednesday as they attempted to target areas west of Omdurman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another drone attacked the Al-Darushab area north of Khartoum Bahri, but it was shot down before reaching its target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Atbara, River Nile State, several RSF drones flew over the city in an apparent attempt to attack it. However, the drones were intercepted, and several crashed inside an agricultural project near the village of Umm Al-Tuyour, on the western bank of the Nile, without causing any significant losses.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone attack on Wednesday morning targeting the cities of Atbara, Omdurman, and Khartoum Bahri. In Khartoum State, the army\u2019s air defenses intercepted several RSF drones in the early hours of Wednesday as they attempted to target areas west of Omdurman. Another drone attacked the Al-Darushab area north of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61992","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\/61992","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=61992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61994,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61992\/revisions\/61994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}