Sudan accuses Haftar’s Libyan forces of cross-border assault in escalating regional conflict

The Sudanese military has accused on June 11 Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar of direct involvement in a deadly cross-border assault that it says struck Sudanese army positions in the sensitive border triangle shared with Egypt and Libya.

The Sudanese army alleges the attack was carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF),aided by Haftar-linked Salafi militants from the Subul Al-Salam battalion—a move described by Khartoum as a “blatant violation” of Sudanese sovereignty.

In a strongly worded statement,the army claimed the offensive forms part of a broader “regional and international conspiracy” designed to destabilize Sudan. Sudanese military leaders have framed the conflict as not merely internal,but a proxy war involving foreign interests aiming to fracture national unity.

This sharp escalation comes as clashes in Darfur and surrounding border areas continue to intensify,with Khartoum repeatedly pointing fingers at Haftar’s Libyan forces for bolstering RSF insurgents led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo,commonly known as Hemedti. The army,invoking the resilience of the Sudanese people,vowed to repel the aggression “regardless of the scale of the conspiracy,” further underscoring the conflict’s spiralling regional dimensions.