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This is a list of wars involving South Yemen.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Head of
Government
Aden Emergency
(1963–1967) 		NLF
FLOSY 		 United Kingdom Victory
None
Al-Wadiah War
(1969) 		 South Yemen Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Defeat
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972) 		 South Yemen  North Yemen Ceasefire
  • Yemens pledge to unify[2]
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Lebanese Civil War
(1976–1977) 		Arab League ADF LF Withdrawal
  • South Yemen withdraws from the ADF force in 1977
Ogaden War
(1977–1978) 		Ethiopia
 Cuba
 Soviet Union
 South Yemen 		Somalia Somalia
WSLF 		Victory
Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1990) 		Ethiopia Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen 		ELF
EPLF 		Defeat
  • Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia
Yemenite War of 1979
(1979) 		 South Yemen
Yemen Arab Republic NDF 		 North Yemen Ceasefire
  • Yemens re-pledge ambition to unify
South Yemen Civil War
(1986) 		South Yemen Muhammad's faction South Yemen Ismail's faction Regime change
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Yemeni Civil War
(1994) 		South Yemen South Yemen  Yemen Defeat
  • Reunification of Yemen

References

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  1. ^ Halliday, Fred (2002). Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987. Cambridge University Press. p. 160. ISBN 9780521891646.
  2. ^ Gause, Gregory, Saudi-Yemeni relations: domestic structures and foreign influence, Columbia University Press, 1990, page 98
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