Civil war

South Yemen crisis

13 Jan 1986 – 24 Jan 1986 · 12.80° N, 45.03° E

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When
13 Jan 1986 – 24 Jan 1986
Kind
Civil war
Coordinates
12.80° N, 45.03° E
Description
1986 failed coup d'etat and armed conflict

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South Yemeni crisis

1986 failed coup d'etat and armed conflict

The South Yemeni crisis, colloquially referred to in Yemen as the events of '86, was a failed coup d'etat and brief civil war which took place on January 13, 1986, in South Yemen. The civil war developed as a result of ideological differences, and later tribal tensions, between two factions of the ruling Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), centred on Abdul Fattah Ismail's faction, at-Toghmah, and Ali Nasir Muhammad's facti…

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