KHARTOUM – A high-ranking Sudanese army officer was killed on Tuesday morning during a wave of drone attacks on Khartoum, in one of the most serious escalations of unmanned aerial warfare by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since their ouster from the capital earlier this year.

Major-General Abu Ubieda Fadlallah Ibrahim, the Sudanese military’s director of military security and deputy director of military intelligence was killed when drones struck the Military Intelligence building in Khartoum Bahri’s Kafouri district, according to security sources and residents who spoke to Sudans Post.