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Militiamen Dig in at a Front Line of Yemen's Deadlocked War

Associated Press

   MOREYS, YEMEN - The militiamen pointed out across the hills, a
   landscape of nothing but stone and brush in southern Yemen. Over there,
   invisible, were the closest positions of the Houthi rebels, they said.
   Beyond that loomed Nasah Mountain, a peak topped with a fortresslike
   crag from which the rebels can shell across the area.

   They do so every night. Once darkness falls, the hills shake as the
   militiamen and the rebels exchange rounds of mortars and machinegun
   fire. Sometimes the militiamen let loose with their tank, dug in at the
   rear of their position.

   It has been this way for months, with neither side advancing but with a
   constant drain of bloodshed.

   "Where you're standing right there, me and my colleague were talking
   and in two seconds, his body was torn to pieces," one militia
   commander, Col. Taha Saeed, told The Associated Press during a rare
   visit to the front lines this week.

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