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Yemen

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Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, the country includes the Socotra Archipelago and borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Arabian Sea to the east, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the Red Sea to the west. It also shares maritime borders with Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia across the Horn of Africa. Covering 455,503 square kilometres (175,871 sq mi), with a coastline of approximately 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi), Yemen is the second-largest country on the Arabian Peninsula by both area and population.

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  1. 632 CEBattle of ZafarHa'ilThe Battle of Zafar took place in 632 between Khalid ibn al-Walid, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a tribal chieftess called Salma. Khalid defeated her and she died on the battlefield. The battle was part of the Ridda Wars.Source: Wikidata (country)
  2. 1548Aden RevoltAdenThe Aden revolt of 1548 was a rebellion against Ottoman rule in Yemen, that was suppressed after Ottoman forces under Piri Reis arrived on 26 February 1548.Source: Wikidata (country)
  3. 1963 – 1967Aden EmergencyFederation of South ArabiaThe Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution or the Aden Insurgency, was an armed rebellion led mainly by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the British Protectorate and Federation of South Arabia.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  4. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamiIndonesiaOn 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a Mw 9.2–9.3 earthquake struck with its epicenter off the west coast of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, was caused by a rupture along the fault boundary between the Burma plate and the Indian plate, and reached a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX in some…Source: Wikidata (country)
  5. 2004Houthi insurgencySaada GovernorateThe Houthi insurgency, also known as the Sa'dah Wars, was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis that began in northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war. The conflict was sparked in 2004 by the government's attempt to arrest Hussein al-Houthi, a Zaidi religious leader of the Houthis and a former parliamentarian on whose head the government had placed a $55,000 bounty.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  6. 2008Operation AtalantaGulf of AdenOperation Atalanta, formally EUNAVFOR ATALANTA, is an ongoing European Union (EU) military operation contributing to maritime security in the West Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Launched on 8 December 2008 as the EU’s first naval operation, it was initially established to protect World Food Programme (WFP) vessels and other vulnerable shipping, and to deter, prevent and repress piracy and armed robbery off Somalia.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  7. 2009South Yemen insurgencyYemenThe South Yemen insurgency was a series of protests and attacks on government forces in southern Yemen since 27 April 2009. The insurgency comes amid the Shia insurgency in the country's north as led by the Houthi communities. Southern leaders led a brief, unsuccessful secession in 1994 following unification. Many of them are involved in the present secession movement.Source: Wikidata (country)
  8. 2011 – 2012Yemeni revolutionYemenThe Yemeni revolution, also known as the Yemeni intifada, was a series of major anti-government protests and armed uprisings that raged through Yemen from January 2011 to February 2012. It occurred concurrently with the Arab Spring that broke out throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.Source: Wikidata (country)
  9. 2014 – 2015Houthi takeover of YemenSanaaThe Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known by the Houthis as the September 21 Revolution, or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power.Source: Wikidata (country)
  10. 2015March 2015 Sanaa mosque bombingsSanaaThe 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings were four suicide attacks targeting two mosques on 20 March 2015 in Sanaa, Yemen.Source: Wikidata (country)
  11. 2015Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil warYemenOn 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, staged a military intervention in Yemen at the request of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been ousted from the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 by Houthis during the Yemeni civil war.Source: Wikidata (country)
  12. 2023Gaza warLevantThe Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when Palestinian militant group Hamas led an attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 were taken hostage.Source: Wikidata (country)
  13. 2023 – 2025Operation Prosperity GuardianRed SeaOperation Prosperity Guardian was a United States-led military operation by a multinational coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.Source: Wikidata (country)
  14. 2023Red Sea crisisMiddle EastThe Red Sea crisis is an ongoing armed conflict and maritime crisis instigated by the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen fighting a civil war against the country's internationally recognized government.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  15. 2024July 2024 Houthi–Israel attacksAl HudaydahOn 19 July 2024, Houthi militants in Yemen performed a drone attack on Israel, hitting an apartment building near the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, Israel's economic center in Ben Yehuda Street. The drone strike killed one person in his apartment building, and injured 10 others.Source: Wikidata (country)
  16. 2024US–UK airstrikes on YemenYemenBetween 12 January 2024 and 6 May 2025 the United States and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea.Source: Wikidata (country)
  17. 2025August 2025 Israeli attack on SanaaSanaaOn 28 August 2025, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted targeted strikes, codenamed Operation Lucky Drop (Hebrew: מבצע טיפת מזל) against several Houthi ministers in Bayt Baws, Sanaa, Yemen.Source: Wikidata (country)
  18. 2025March–May 2025 United States attacks in YemenSanaaIn March 2025, the United States launched a large campaign of air and naval strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. Codenamed Operation Rough Rider, it was the first large-scale US military operation in the Middle East during President Donald Trump's second term.Source: Wikidata (country)