This is a list of wars that South Yemen has been involved in.
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Head of
Government |
|---|
Aden Emergency
(1963–1967) | {{flagicon image|Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg|size=22px}} NLF
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf.svg|size=22px}} FLOSY | {{flag|United Kingdom|size=22px}}- {{flagicon|South Arabia|size=22px}} South Arabia
| Victory- Independence of South Yemen
| None |
Al-Wadiah War
(1969) | {{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|Saudi Arabia|1938|size=22px}} Saudi Arabia | Defeat- Saudi Arabia reoccupies al-Wadiah[1]
| Muhammad Ali Haitham |
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972) | {{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}} | {{flag|North Yemen|size=22px}} | Cease-fire- Yemens pledge to unify[2]
| Ali Nasir Muhammad |
Lebanese Civil War
(1976–1977) | {{flagicon|Arab League|size=22px}} ADF- {{flag|Syria|1980|size=22px}}
- {{flag|Saudi Arabia|size=22px}}
- {{flag|Sudan|size=22px}}
- {{flag|UAE|size=22px}}
- {{flag|Libya|1972|size=22px}}
- {{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}}
| {{flagicon image|Flag of Lebanon.svg|size=22px}} LF | Withdrawal- South Yemen withdraws from the ADF force in 1977
|
Ogaden War
(1977–1978) | {{flagicon image|Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987).svg|size=22px}} Ethiopia
{{flag|Cuba|size=22px}}
{{flag|Soviet Union|1955|size=22px}}
{{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|Somalia|size=22px}} Somalia
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Western Somali Liberation Front.svg|size=22px}} WSLF | Victory- Somali withdrawal from Ogaden
|
Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1990) | {{flagicon|Ethiopia|1975|size=22px}} Ethiopia
{{flag|Cuba|size=22px}}
{{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}} | {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Eritrea_(1952-1961).svg|size=22px}} ELF
{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_EPLF.svg|size=22px}} EPLF | Defeat- Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia
|
Yemenite War of 1979
(1979) | {{flag|South Yemen|size=22px}}
{{flagicon|North Yemen|size=22px}} NDF | {{flag|North Yemen|size=22px}} | Cease-fire- Yemen's re-pledge ambition to unify
|
South Yemen Civil War
(1986) | {{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} Muhammad's faction | {{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} Ismail's faction | Regime change- al-Attas becomes president
| Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas |
Yemeni Civil War
(1994) | {{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} South Yemen | {{flag|Yemen|1994|size=22px}} | Defeat |
South Yemen insurgency
(2009-2015) | {{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} Southern Movement | {{flag|Yemen|1994|size=22px}} | Start of full-scale civil war | None |
Yemeni Civil War
(2015–) | {{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Hadi government
{{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} Southern Movement
{{flag|Saudi Arabia|2004|size=22px}}
{{flag|United Arab Emirates|name=UAE|size=22px}}
{{flag|Bahrain|size=22px}}
{{flag|Kuwait|size=22px}}
{{flag|Qatar|size=22px}}
{{flag|Jordan|size=22px}}
{{flag|Morocco|size=22px}}
{{flag|Egypt|size=22px}}
{{flag|Senegal|size=22px}}
{{flag|Sudan|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Houthi government- {{flagicon image|Houthis Logo.png|size=15px}} Houthis
- {{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Saleh loyalists
al-Qaeda
{{flagicon|Islamic State|size=22px}} Islamic State | Ongoing- Houthis dissolve Yemeni government
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- War between the Hadi government and the STC
|
{{flagicon|South Yemen|size=22px}} STC
{{flag|United Arab Emirates|name=UAE|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Houthi government- {{flagicon image|Houthis Logo.png|size=15px}} Houthis
- {{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Saleh loyalists
al-Qaeda
{{flagicon|Islamic State|size=22px}} Islamic State
{{flagicon|Yemen|size=22px}} Hadi government
{{flag|Saudi Arabia|2004|size=22px}}
{{flag|Bahrain|size=22px}}
{{flag|Kuwait|size=22px}}
{{flag|Qatar|size=22px}}
{{flag|Jordan|size=22px}}
{{flag|Morocco|size=22px}}
{{flag|Egypt|size=22px}}
{{flag|Senegal|size=22px}}
{{flag|Sudan|size=22px}} | Aidarus al-Zoubaidi |
1. ^{{cite book |last=Halliday |first=Fred|title=Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5DToPmhXrIC |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521891646 |accessdate= |page=160 |year=2002}}
2. ^Gause, Gregory, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0yUzV-g2X2QC&pg=PA98&dq=%22arab+league%22+yemen+1972&hl=en&ei=KOGMTZC3HaaB0QH-3ry2Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22arab%20league%22%20yemen%201972&f=false Saudi-Yemeni relations: domestic structures and foreign influence], Columbia University Press, 1990, page 98
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