Royalists enter a North Yemeni reconciliation government

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 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.

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...

The ICRC visited North Yemeni soldiers interned in Aden and continued detention-related work on both sides following the October ceasefire and unity agreement.

The 1972 accord’s timetable for constitutional drafting and a unified state did not produce immediate union. Cross-border tensions persisted, showing the gap between formal commitments and competing...