ICRC expands wartime medical care in Sana’a

British forces re-entered the Crater district of Aden after ambushes and unrest. The operation briefly reasserted military control but could not reverse the political collapse of British-backed...

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...

A leftist faction displaced South Yemen’s first president, Qahtan al-Shaabi, and Prime Minister Faisal al-Shaabi. The episode reflected a struggle over the direction and leadership of the new state...

Saudi Arabia and the Yemen Arab Republic reached a reconciliation framework that helped end Saudi support for the royalist bid to restore the imamate and enabled a broader settlement of the North...

Saudi recognition formalized a rapprochement with the republican government. The shift followed years of Saudi support for royalist forces and marked a regional turning point in the war’s aftermath.

A postwar settlement incorporated former royalists into the Yemen Arab Republic’s political order. The compromise ended the principal phase of the civil war without resolving contestation over...

During the renewed North-South conflict, the ICRC visited conflict-related detainees in Sana’a and sent medical supplies to Taiz. The record shows a humanitarian response as well as the interstate...