6,300 national resistance fighters join govt security forces

More than 6,300 Yemeni fighters from the pro-government National Resistance Forces have so far joined the government's security forces, Yemeni Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Major General Hussain Mohammed Arab announced Thursday.

"We take great interest in enforcing peace and stability in all the country's governorates and not only in Aden," the Saudi state news agency SPA quoted the Yemeni minister as saying.

Arab made the remarks as he opened a special training course at Al Nasr camp in Aden.

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