North Yemen Civil War

North Yemen Civil War
Part of the Arab Cold War
Royalist Yemeni forces try to repel an Egyptian armored attack
Date 26 September 1962 – 1 December 1970 (8 years, 2 months and 5 days) Location North Yemen Result Republican victory Saudi support to Muhammad al-Badr and the royalist faction ceased in 1965 Withdrawal of Egyptian forces in 1967 A republican government formed in North Yemen, incorporating members from the royalist faction but not the royal family
Belligerents
Kingdom of Yemen  Saudi Arabia Supported by:  Jordan  United Kingdom	Yemen Arab Republic Egypt Supported by:  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Muhammad al-Badr Al-Hassan Bin Yahya Abdurrahman Bin Yahya Muhammad Bin Al-Hussain Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan Faisal bin Abdulaziz	Abdullah as-Sallal Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer
Strength
20,000 semi-regulars (1965) 200,000 tribesmen (1965) Hundreds of mercenaries financed by United Kingdom	3,000 soldiers (1964) 70,000 soldiers (1965)
Casualties and losses
1,000 dead	26,000 dead
100,000–200,000 killed

Republican victory

 Yemen Arab Republic
Egypt

The North Yemen Civil War (Arabic: ثورة 26 سبتمبر‎‎) was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between royalist partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The war began with a coup d'état carried out in 1962 by revolutionary republicans led by the army under the command of Abdullah as-Sallal, who dethroned the newly crowned Imam Muhammad al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic under his presidency. The Imam escaped to the Saudi Arabian border where he rallied popular support from northern Shia tribes to retake power, escalating shortly to a full-scale civil war.

On the royalist side Jordan and Saudi Arabia supplied military aid, and Britain gave covert support, while the republicans were supported by Egypt and were supplied warplanes from the Soviet Union. Both foreign irregular and conventional forces were involved. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser supported the republicans with as many as 70,000 Egyptian troops and weapons. Despite several military actions and peace conferences, the war sank into a stalemate by the mid-1960s.

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