{"id":16104,"date":"2026-05-16T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/rsf-claims-drone-downed-in-south-darfur-as-attacks-continue\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:40:07","slug":"rsf-claims-drone-downed-in-south-darfur-as-attacks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/rsf-claims-drone-downed-in-south-darfur-as-attacks-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF claims drone downed in South Darfur as attacks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it shot down a military drone over Nyala as the city came under renewed bombardment for the fourth consecutive day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RSF field commanders published videos on Wednesday showing what they claimed was the wreckage of a drone brought down in the Dama area north of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/senior-rsf-leaders-survive-drone-attack-in-nyala-south-darfur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nyala<\/a>. Field commander Ali Bahr said RSF fighters intercepted the aircraft during ongoing attacks on the city.<\/p>\n<p>The commanders identified it as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-down-turkish-made-drone-in-south-darfur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Turkish-made \u201cBayraktar Akinci\u201d<\/a>, although Radio Dabanga could not independently verify the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Residents told&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-claims-drone-downed-in-south-darfur-as-attacks-continue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it shot down a military drone over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudan","category-1219"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}