For years, the faces of the soldiers in Aden, in Yemen's south, have remained largely unchanged. The same is true moving into Lahj governorate, and along the west coast in Taiz, where the same members of the National Resistance Forces (NRF) have continued to hold their positions.
Over the past eight years, the NRF operated alongside the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), with the backing of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to which they were firmly loyal. As recently as late December, they either fought in or supported an offensive against forces aligned with the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC).
Today, however, the NRF, a well-equipped anti-Houthi force led by Tarek Saleh, a ..
