A/HRC/45/CRP.7 Serial Name Position Location 12 Colonel Ahmed Qaid alQubbah Security Belt Commander Al-Dhale’e Remarks ‫عقيد احمد قايد القبه‬ b) Shabwah Elite Forces 16. Like the Security Belt Forces, the Shabwah Elite Forces are a non-state armed group comprised of around 10,000 fighters established, trained and armed by the UAE, and led by Lt. Col. Muhammad Salem al-Buhair. Its mission has included combatting Al-Qaeda and expelling it from Shabwah. After the battle of Aden in August 2019, the military clashes spread to Shabwah and violent confrontations took place between the Shabwah Elite Forces and Government of Yemen forces, from which the government forces emerged triumphant. As a result, the Southern Transitional Council lost its strongest armed formations in the Shabwah Governorate, namely the Shabwah Elite Forces, consisting of seven infantry brigades, with all their facilities, light and medium weapons, wheeled infantry (combat) and other vehicles.777 Serial Name Position Location 1 Lt. Col. Mohammed Salem al-Buhair alQamishi 778 Shabwah Elite Belhaf Forces Commander Remarks October 2017 ‫مقدم محمد سالم البوحير القمشي‬ 2 Lt. Col. Wajdi Ba'aum al- Commander of 4th Khelaifi779 Brigade, Shabwah Elite Forces ‫مقدم وجدي باعوم الخالفي‬ 3 Major Mahdi Mohammed Shabwah Rapid Barahma Intervention Forces780 ‫رائد مهدي محمد براهمه‬ 4 Muhammed Saleh Farah al-Kirby781 ‫محمد صالح فرح الكربي‬ c) Commander of 6th Brigade, Shabwah Elite Forces Nassab and Markha Shabwah Died on 20 July 2020782 Hadramaut Elite Forces 17. The Hadramaut Elite Forces is, like the Security Belt and Shabwah Elite Forces, a non-state armed group that was formed, armed and trained by the UAE. This force is led by Major General Faraj al-Bahsni, who is the commander of the Second Military Region and governor of Hadramaut. Al-Bahsni did not support the STC decision to declare selfadministration in the south. 2. Armed Groups in the West Coast Front 18. On the Red Sea coast, Brigadier General Tareq Saleh, nephew of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, commands ‘the Joint Resistance Forces’, comprising 40,000 to 50,000 777 778 779 780 781 782 132 Ibid Press interview with commander of Shabwah Elite Forces, Al-Omana post, 2 November 2017, https://al-omana.com/news65261.html. S/2020/326, Annex 10. Available at: https://undocs.org/ar/S/2020/326. UN document S/2018/68. Available at: https://undocs.org/ar/S/2018/68. Ibid. See: https://www.alayyam.info/news/89YGUE54-DRXX6P-DF70.