Sudan’s army launched artillery and air strikes in Sudan’s capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses and military sources said.

It appears to be the army's first major offensive to regain the capital since the war began last year.

CAIRO -- New fighting rocked Sudan's capital on Thursday with airstrikes and drone attacks in and around Khartoum amid a worsening cholera outbreak, officials said.

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.

Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak

Sources within the Sudanese military and witnesses at the scene say Sudan’s army on Thursday launched an early morning offensive in the capital, Khartoum, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in what appeared to be the army’s biggest operation since the conflict began.