عاجل: انباء عن هجوم كاسح للجيش السوداني داخل اراضي الجنوب

Quote: Juba, South Sudan (CNN) -- South Sudan accused Sudan of launching ground and aerial attacks inside South Sudan's territory Sunday. "They have been bombings since 9 this morning, and at 1 o'clock they launched a ground attack," said Barnaba Marial Benjamin, South Sudan's minister of information. The clashes came after the southern army said it withdrew troops from a contested, oil-rich border region. A spokesman for the Sudanese military could not be immediately reached for comment. Claims from both sides are difficult to confirm, as journalists and independent observers do not have access to the front lines. South Sudan announced Friday that it would comply with a request from the United Nations Security Council to pull troops out of the disputed oil-rich region of Heglig, which it had occupied since April 10. Sudan claimed its forces had forced southern troops out and captured the area. Benjamin said his country's army withdrew to bases near the border and inside South Sudan. Sudanese forces crossed the border and attacked them there, he said. "They are trying to drag us back into a war, and that's what the Security Council didn't want," he said. "They must tell them to stop these attacks." Benjamin said the bases near the border have been repeatedly attacked in the past by Sudanese troops based in Heglig, and those previous attacks prompted South Sudan to occupy the area. Heglig is on the border created last year when the two countries split. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had vowed to "never give up" the disputed region.