Special Envoy to Aden and Lahi
Adel returned from the front for a few days of rest, before the religious holiday of Eid.
On the west coast, along the Red Sea, the battle around the port of Hodeidah, where he is deployed with his Salafi unit, is slowing down.
But Adel is hardly optimistic.
Faced with his united Houthi enemies, the proliferation of armed groups in his camp, their lack of resources and the tensions between their Saudi and Emirati sponsors worry him.
"Thank God I'm still alive after four years of war
," smiles this 25-year-old young man with a long beard, wearing a brown keffiyeh, and wearing the thobe, the traditional Salafi outfit.
I have lost a lot of brothers to the Houthi drones.
They use snipers a lot and lay a lot of mines.
If we had their equipment, we would attack them easily, but we don't have them, he
regrets during a meeting in Lahij province, north of Aden.
We only have our individual weapons,
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