A wave of drone strikes hit key infrastructure and military targets near Sudan's army-held capital on Tuesday (September 9, 2025), witnesses and officials told AFP, bringing to an abrupt end a period of relative calm in the area.
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Strikes hit a power station, a weapons factory and an oil refinery near Khartoum, witnesses at the sites said on condition of anonymity, while a military source said an air base had also been targeted.
The assault came months after the military ousted the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces from the area in May, a key battleground in the war that erupted in April 2023.
It came as the army-backed government pressed a major reconstruction bid in the Khartoum area, after millions of people fled fighting in the city earlier in the conflict.
