United Arab Republic forces in Yemen

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United Arab Republic forces in Yemen were the Egyptian-led military contingent deployed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to support republican factions during the North Yemen Civil War in the 1960s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf foreign expeditionary force
military force
alliedWith Yemeni republican forces
belligerentIn North Yemen Civil War
casualties high Egyptian casualties
commander Abdel Hakim Amer
Ali Abdel Hafez
commandStructure Egyptian General Staff
conflict North Yemen Civil War
country United Arab Republic
deployedBy Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic government
endTime 1970
financedBy United Arab Republic
hasComponent Egyptian Air Force
Egyptian armored units
Egyptian artillery units
Egyptian paratroopers
hasPrimaryComponent Egyptian Army
historicalContext prelude to Six-Day War
ideology Arab nationalism
Nasserism
involvedIn Arab Cold War
Egypt–Saudi Arabian rivalry
leader Gamal Abdel Nasser
location Saada region
Sanaʽa
Taiz
Yemen
objective defeat Yemeni royalist forces
support republican government in North Yemen
opposed Yemeni royalists
opposedBy Jordanian-supported elements
Saudi Arabia
partOf Egyptian Armed Forces
Egyptian foreign policy under Nasser
reasonForEnd Egyptian defeat in Six-Day War and need to redeploy forces
political settlement in North Yemen
result military withdrawal from Yemen
strategic setback for Egypt
startTime 1962
status disbanded
support Yemeni republicans
theaterOfOperations North Yemen
linked to: Yemen Arab Republic
timePeriod 1960s
typeOfOperation foreign military intervention
usedWarfareType aerial bombardment
conventional warfare
counterinsurgency

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Saad el-Shazly commanded United Arab Republic forces in Yemen
1962 Yemeni revolution relatedTo Egyptian intervention in the North Yemen Civil War
linked to: United Arab Republic forces in Yemen