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| Yemen to Merge 'Resistance' Fighters with Army | |
| 2015-07-30 | |
| [AnNahar] The exiled Yemeni government has issued an order for Lions of Islam fighting alongside loyalist troops against Iranian catspaws be merged into the armed forces, as festivities raged Wednesday in the country's south. The supreme defense council, which met in Riyadh Tuesday, decided to "assimilate members of the Popular Resistance into the units of the armed forces and security forces," the government-run news agency said. The meeting, headed by President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, took the decision to reward them for their "brave contribution to defending the homeland." Popular Resistance units were formed when the Iran-backed rebels and their allies advanced on southern regions after they had overran the capital in September. Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... festivities raged in the south, where pro-government forces expanded their area of control after recapturing the port of Aden, Yemen's second city, after four months of fighting. The loyalists pushed back rebels in Lahoum, on Aden's northern outskirts, following heavy fighting in which 12 rebels were killed, military sources said. Three pro-Hadi fighters were killed and dozens maimed, medical sources said. The area lies on the road to restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , where loyalists have been tightening the noose on rebels, with the aim of recapturing the strategic Al-Anad airbase. The festivities further evidenced the failure to take hold of a five-day truce declared from midnight Sunday by the Saudi-led, pro-government Arab coalition to allow the delivery of desperately needed relief supplies.
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