Short military conflict between North and South Yemen
This article is about the First Yemenite War. For other civil wars in Yemen, see Yemeni War.
First Yemenite War
Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War
North & South Yemen
Date
26 September – 19 October 1972 (3 weeks and 2 days)
Location
North Yemen–South Yemen border
Result
Cairo Agreement
No territorial changes
Two Yemens pledge ambition to unify
Belligerents
North Yemen Supported By:
Saudi Arabia
United States
United Kingdom
Jordan
Iran
Egypt
South Yemen Supported By:
Cuba
Soviet Union
Libya
Iraq
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
North Korea
Commanders and leaders
Abdul Rahman al-Eryani Ali Abdullah Saleh
Abdul Fattah Ismail
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Internal conflicts in modern Yemen
Alwaziri coup
Yemeni–Adenese clan violence
North Yemen Civil War
Aden Emergency
Yemenite War of 1972
NDF Rebellion
Yemenite War of 1979
South Yemen Civil War
Yemeni Civil War (1994)
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
Houthi insurgency in Yemen
South Yemen insurgency
Yemeni Crisis
Yemeni Revolution
Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
The First Yemenite War was a short military conflict between the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; North Yemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY; South Yemen).[1]
^Gause, Gregory, Saudi-Yemeni relations: domestic structures and foreign influence, Columbia University Press, 1990, page 98
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