Saudi-Yemeni reconciliation opens a path to recognition

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.

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 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...

Major fighting broke out between the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen amid competing claims about cross-border support and unresolved boundaries. The University of...

The two governments signed an agreement calling for force withdrawals, reopening the shared border, refugee return, a ban on hostile acts and work toward a unified state. The agreement created a...