July 29, 2015 Meet the Middle East

Yemen to merge 'resistance' fighters with army

Yemen's exiled government has issued an order for militiamen fighting alongside loyalist troops against Shiite rebels to be merged into the armed forces, as clashes raged Wednesday in the south.The supreme defence council, which met in Riyadh on 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.
Source: Albawaba
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