📅 26 September 1962
A group of Yemeni army officers deposed Imam Muhammad al-Badr and proclaimed the Yemen Arab Republic. The revolution grew from domestic opposition to hereditary rule and wider republican currents....
📅 28 September 1962
Imam al-Badr survived the attack on his palace and began organizing royalist resistance. The survival of the imam enabled a rival political coalition to mobilize, preventing the new republican...
📅 October 1962
Saudi Arabia supported the royalist opposition, responding to the republican revolution and Egyptian military presence near its border. Yemeni factions received outside money, weapons and political...
📅 February 1968
After a siege lasting about seventy days, republican forces held Sana’a. The siege’s end did not end the civil war: royalist forces retained rural strongholds and the conflict continued for two more...
