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This is a list of wars involving South Yemen.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Head of
Government
Aden Emergency
(1963–1967)
Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf NLF
Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf FLOSY
Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
  • Federation of South Arabia South Arabia
Victory
  • Independence of South Yemen
None
Al-Wadiah War
(1969)
Flag of South Yemen South Yemen Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Defeat
  • Saudi Arabia reoccupies al-Wadiah[1]
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)
Flag of South Yemen South Yemen Flag of North Yemen North Yemen Ceasefire
  • Yemens pledge to unify[2]
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Lebanese Civil War
(1976–1977)
Arab League ADF
  • Flag of Syria Syria
  • Flag of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
  • Flag of Sudan Sudan
  • Flag of the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
  • Flag of Libya (1972–1977) Libya
  • Flag of South Yemen South Yemen
Flag of Lebanon LF Withdrawal
  • South Yemen withdraws from the ADF force in 1977
Ogaden War
(1977–1978)
Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987) Ethiopia
Flag of Cuba Cuba
Flag of the Soviet Union 1955 Soviet Union
Flag of South Yemen South Yemen
Somalia Somalia
Flag of the Western Somali Liberation Front WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from Ogaden
Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1990)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
Flag of Cuba Cuba
Flag of South Yemen South Yemen
Flag of Eritrea (1952-1961) ELF
Flag of the EPLF EPLF
Defeat
  • Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia
Yemenite War of 1979
(1979)
Flag of South Yemen South Yemen
Yemen Arab Republic NDF
Flag of North Yemen North Yemen Ceasefire
  • Yemen's re-pledge ambition to unify
South Yemen Civil War
(1986)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Muhammad's faction People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Ismail's faction Regime change
  • al-Attas becomes president
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Yemeni Civil War
(1994)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen Flag of Yemen Yemen Defeat
  • Reunification of Yemen
South Yemen insurgency
(2009–2015)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Southern Movement Flag of Yemen Yemen Start of full-scale civil war
  • Separatists hold Aden
None
Yemeni Civil War
(2015–)
Yemen Hadi government
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Southern Movement
Flag of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Flag of the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Flag of Bahrain Bahrain
Flag of Kuwait Kuwait
Flag of Qatar Qatar
Flag of Jordan Jordan
Flag of Morocco Morocco
Flag of Egypt Egypt
Flag of Senegal Senegal
Flag of Sudan Sudan
Yemen Houthi government
ShababFlag al-Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
Ongoing
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen STC
Flag of the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Yemen Houthi government
ShababFlag al-Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
Yemen Hadi government
Flag of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Flag of Bahrain Bahrain
Flag of Kuwait Kuwait
Flag of Qatar Qatar
Flag of Jordan Jordan
Flag of Morocco Morocco
Flag of Egypt Egypt
Flag of Senegal Senegal
Flag of Sudan Sudan
Aidarus al-Zoubaidi

References[]

  1. Halliday, Fred (2002). Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987. Cambridge University Press. p. 160. ISBN 9780521891646. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5DToPmhXrIC. 
  2. Gause, Gregory, Saudi-Yemeni relations: domestic structures and foreign influence, Columbia University Press, 1990, page 98
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