YEMEN Press Agency

Military forces arrived in Hadramout

HADRAMOUT, July 18 (YPA) – The military forces belonging to the military leader of the Islah Party Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar arrived in province of Hadramout in eastern Yemen.

Local sources revealed that Islah Party transferred hundreds of fighters from its militias to the city of Si’un with their full range and equipment after they received their military training in the province of Marib, to face any demands for the departure of forces loyal to exiled “Hadi,”

The sources indicated that this came on the directives issued by Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, days after the extensive consultative meeting held in Mukalla for various components and political organizations, which discussed the security chaos in the districts of the valley and the Sahara and the recruitment of 3 thousand children of the districts of the valley to secure the region from terrorism.

The sources pointed out that the commander of the first military zone, Saleh Taymis, and the chief of staff of the region Yahya Mohammed Abu Awja, who received the militants, and directed to confront any movements disturbing security in the districts of the valley from militias  loyal to the southern transitional or terrorist elements in the region.