Yemeni government forces take positions and rest on the side of a road on the road leading to the southwestern port of Mokha after they recaptured the town from Shiite Huthi rebels on January 23, 2017.
An official statement said government forces recaptured the whole city, but a military commander in the field told AFP that loyalists were still fighting the rebels on the southern outskirts of Mokha.
/ AFP PHOTO / SALEH AL-OBEIDI
Four Southerns killed by Tariq Saleh’s forces in Mokha
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Battles erupt periodically in camps which The UAE is trying to turn its soldiers and officers into tools at the hands of Tariq Saleh, Conference party’s ex-president’s nephew , and loyal officers to him.
In the city of Mukha, four people were killed, and others were injured during clashes between members of the southern resistance and others belonging to Tariq Saleh on the grounds that officers assigned to Tariq imposed their orders on the people of the south.
According to the sources, armed confrontations erupted between groups belonging to Tariq Saleh ,led by al-Humiri and others from the sons of Dali. The clashes ended with the killing of four sons of Dhala and the wounding of others from both sides’ after the treachery of soldiers loyal to Tariq Saleh killed them after his military mediation to end the cessation of hostilities.
It is noteworthy that there is a southern rejection to forces of Tariq Saleh or fighting under his command , as well as the southerns consider those UAE attempts as an insult to the sons of the south and a fracture of their strict will , in addition to a denial issue of their standing with the UAE on different fighting fronts .
