RSF Militia Plans Assassination of Al-Nour Al-Qubba

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia field commander Brig. Gen. Saleh Issa is featured in leaked audio recordings circulated on social media platforms, in which he discusses plans to assassinate Maj. Gen. Al-Nour Al-Qubba.

In the recordings, the militia commander is heard speaking with a young man and requesting the phone numbers and personal account details of Maj. Gen. Al-Nour Al-Qubba and his sons, with the aim of entering them into tracking systems to facilitate targeting operations.

Following Maj. Gen. Al-Nour Al-Qubba’s defection from the RSF militia and his move to Omdurman, Saleh Issa, who was leading the militia’s only force in the desert area, refused to carry out orders from his command to confront him. He justified his retreat at the time by saying that Al-Qubba’s forces outnumbered his own and were better armed, choosing to flee and hide rather than engage in a direct military confrontation.

The militia commander has now returned to a strategy of tracking opponents through digital surveillance and intelligence gathering instead of confronting them militarily on the battlefield. Saleh Issa’s military record has remained the subject of sharp criticism and repeated ridicule, with the events in Al-Zuruq frequently cited by the public as an example of withdrawal and battlefield avoidance.