![A Sudanese army soldier walks toward a truck-mounted gun left behind by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Salha, south of Omdurman, a day after recapturing it from the RSF, on May 21, 2025. [Ebrahim Hamid / AFP/ Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GettyImages-2215653263.jpg)
The Sudanese army continued its advances in North and West Kordofan, south of the country, on Saturday, following fierce clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to military sources, Anadolu reports. Heavy clashes erupted between the army forces and the RSF in the strategic Um Samima area, which is 50 kilometers west of the provincial capital, El-Obeid, and links North Kordofan and West Kordofan states. Military sources told Anadolu that the army forces are advancing in North Kordofan, as they carried out attacks with heavy and light weapons against the rebel forces in Um Samima. The sources added that the army and allied forces are advancing along the axis west of Al-Khuwayyi in the West Kordofan state, around […]
