List of wars involving South Yemen

This is a list of wars that South Yemen has been involved in.

Independent South Yemen

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Aden Emergency
(19631967)
NLF
FLOSY
 United Kingdom
Federation of South Arabia South Arabia
Victory
Al-Wadiah War
(1969)
 South Yemen Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Defeat
  • Saudi Arabia reoccupies al-Wadiah.
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)
 South Yemen  North Yemen Cease-fire
  • Yemens pledge to unify
Ethio-Somali War
(19771978)
Ethiopia
 Cuba
 Soviet Union
 South Yemen
Somalia Somalia
WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from Ogaden.
  • Somalia broke ties with the Second World.
Eritrean War of Independence
(19771990)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
 Cuba
 Soviet Union
 South Yemen
ELF
EPLF
Defeat
Yemenite War of 1979
(1979)
 South Yemen
Yemen Arab Republic NDF
 North Yemen Cease-fire
  • Yemen's re-pledge ambition to unify
South Yemen Civil War
(1986)
 South Yemen People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Ismail's faction Regime change

Post-unification

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Yemeni Civil War
(1994)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen  Yemen Defeat
  • Reunification of Yemen.
South Yemen insurgency
(2009-2015)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen al-Hirak  Yemen Escalated into a full-scale civil war with foreign intervention
  • Separatist insurgency in southern Yemen.
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