British forces re-enter Crater district

The NLF’s armed campaign and popular opposition to British rule continued across Aden and the protectorates. The conflict undermined the Federation’s legitimacy and weakened Britain’s ability to...

The Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen emerged as a rival nationalist organization. The competition between NLF and FLOSY reflected disagreements over leadership and strategy as well...

Britain announced that its forces would leave Aden at independence. The decision reflected the rising cost and political failure of maintaining colonial rule, while the Federation government lacked...

Supporters of the NLF and FLOSY rioted in Aden’s old Arab quarter. The unrest continued into February despite British troop deployment. Rival nationalist mobilization and colonial policing made...

A mutiny in the Federation Army spread to the local police. Eight British transport soldiers were killed when mutineers fired on their vehicle. The breakdown of colonial security institutions marked a...

British and NLF delegations began negotiations in Geneva on the transfer of power. Britain’s withdrawal timetable and the NLF’s battlefield position shaped negotiations, while Aden’s population...

The last British forces withdrew from Aden as the colonial administration ended. After 128 years of British control in the city, the departure followed sustained Yemeni resistance and the collapse...

The People’s Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed following British withdrawal. The transfer ended formal British rule in Aden and the surrounding federation. The new state represented a major...

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...

The ICRC deployed surgeons from European National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in Sana’a, part of a long humanitarian operation amid the North Yemen civil war.