A/HRC/39/43 (c) Armed Groups Serial Name Position 1 Hamoud Saeed al- Chief of Military Council for Makhlafi Resistance36 (no military rank) Location Ta’izz Area of control/Remarks • Al-Rawdah and Zayed al-Mushki • Kalabah, parts of Al-Tahrir, Hawd Al-Ashraaf and Jabal Al-Ikhwah • The outskirts of Al-Kamb • Tho`baat 2 Colonel Adel Abdo Farea alDhubhani, (Abu al-Abbas) Homat alAqeedah37 Ta’izz • Old City • Cairo Fort and the buildings of Political Security • Entire Mudaffar and Al-Qahira • Jumhuri • Al-Jahmaliya area • Thawra 3 Adnan Ruzayq alShabwani (no military rank) Hasm Battalions Ta’izz • HQ at Ta’izz University • Al-Manakh • Parts of the old airport area • Hawdh Al-Ashraf 4 Sheikh Sadek Mahyoob Hasan (Abu al-Sadouk) (no military rank) Kata`ib alTawheed Ta’izz • Osaiferah • Al-’Ashrafiyah • Bab Musa and the Old Town • Haudh Al-Ashraf between Jahmailya and Thawra Hospital 5 36 37 38 24 al-Hussein bin Ali, The Tramps currently Azaam Brigade38 al-Farhan (no military rank) Active in the western parts of the city and in AlDabab mountain region Military commander is Brigadier General Sadeq Serhan. The Military Council for Resistance is itself an umbrella body, coordinating the military operations of fighters affiliated with Islah and military units loyal to Ali Mohsen. A Ta’izz Salafist group with roots in Dammaj. A mixture of local youth with different ideological backgrounds, not initially affiliated with any political party.