Sudan’s Tasis coalition claims Tuesday’s drone strikes on army

September 9, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – A political coalition allied with Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for drone attacks on army targets in Khartoum, a first for the group in the country’s long-running war.

The declaration by the Sudan Founding Coalition (Tasis) marks a strategic shift, as the RSF itself has never publicly admitted to carrying out the drone strikes that have become a key feature of its conflict with the national army.

The claim came after a wave of drone strikes hit the capital for more than three hours on Tuesday morning. The attacks killed Major General Abu Obeida Fadlallah, a former military attaché, at a security building and damaged key infrastructure, including the Al-Markhiyat power station and the Yarmouk military industrial complex.

Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited the damaged power station and condemned the attack on a service facility as a “cowardly act aimed at innocent citizens,” according to a statement from his office. He pledged that the destruction would be met with “more reconstruction and building.”

In its statement, the Tasis coalition cast the operation as retaliation, saying the strikes were a “direct response to the criminal targeting of hospitals and civilian facilities in Darfur and Kordofan.”

The coalition asserted its drones only hit “military and logistical sites” and did not harm civilians. The statement, signed by spokesperson Ala’a al-Din Awad Nuqd, vowed to “strike with an iron fist” to achieve its goals.