{"id":3300,"date":"2025-12-14T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/un-peacekeepers-killed-drone-attack-sudan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:30:13","slug":"un-peacekeepers-killed-drone-attack-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/un-peacekeepers-killed-drone-attack-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief Condemns Deadly Drone Attack on Peacekeepers in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced that a drone strike on a UN logistical base in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state in Sudan, has killed six peacekeepers and wounded eight others.<\/p>\n<p>According to Guterres, all the victims were Bangladeshi nationals serving as part of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). The base is located in an area considered a high-risk security zone due to ongoing conflict in central Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres strongly condemned the attack, calling it &#8220;unjustifiable&#8221; and warned that targeting peacekeepers could constitute a war crime under international law.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for the immediate identification and prosecution of those responsible, stressing that ensuring the safety of UN personnel is essential for the continuation of humanitarian and peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says drone strike in Sudan&#8217;s South Kordofan killed 6 Bangladeshi peacekeepers. Guterres calls it &#8216;unjustifiable&#8217; and urges accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}