A/HRC/39/43 Serial Name Position Location 15 Brigadier General Abd el-Salam alShahi Coalition Commander Western Coast Location 3. Government of Yemen (a) Yemen Armed Forces10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Date assumed role/Remarks Date assumed role/Remarks Serial Name Position 1 President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi Supreme Commander11 2 Major General Ali Adviser to the Mohsen al-Ahmar President for security and military affairs December 2012 3 Major General Mohammad Ahmed Salem alSubaihi kidnapped on 25 March 2015 4 Major General Adviser to the Mohammad Ali al- Supreme Maqdashi Commander13 Acting Minister of Defence, March 2018 Chief of the General Staff during May 2015 – September 2017 5 Major General Tahir Ali alAqaili14 Chief of the General Staff 4 September 2017 6 Major General Saleh Mohammad Timis15 1st Military District Say’un 22 November 2016 Major General Saleh Mohammad Timis 37th Armored Brigade Al-Khash’a Al-Khash’a Axis Commander February 2012 Minister of Defence12 Brigadier General 315th Armored Ahmad Ali Hadi Brigade Thamud Brigadier General 23rd Mechanized Sameer Sharaf al- Brigade Hakemie16 Al-Abr The new structure established five military branches under the Ministry of Defence: Army, Air Force and Air Defence, Navy and Coastal Defence Forces, Border Guard, and Strategic Reserve Forces. According to the new structure, Missile Brigades and Presidential Production Brigades fall under the umbrella of the Supreme Commander. Position vacant from March 2015 to March 2018. Presidential Decree 124 (2017). Replaced Major General Mohammad Ali al-Maqdashi, Presidential Decree 125 (2017). Replaced Major General Abdul Rahman al Halili, Presidential Decree 154 (2016). Replaced Brigadier General Hamoud Naji. 19