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.

PORT SUDAN: Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions across the Sudanese capital, witnesses and a military source said.

STORY: This was the skyline in Khartoum on Thursday (September 26) as witnesses and military sources said Sudan's army had launched a major operation to regain ground.It is the biggest push here by the army since early in its 17-month war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces,

Sudan's army has launched a major offensive against the powerful paramilitary group it is fighting in the country's civil war, targeting areas in the capital it lost at the start of the conflict. In dawn strikes on Thursday, government forces shelled Rapid Support Forces (RSF) bases in the capital Khartoum, and Bahri to its north.

The army recaptured parts of Omdurman from the RSF in a major offensive in February. It lost control of most of the capital to the paramilitary group at the start of the conflict last April and has since been unable to oust it from Khartoum.

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.