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 NERFINISHED
belligerentIn North Yemen Civil War NERFINISHED
casualties high Egyptian casualties
commander Abdel Hakim Amer NERFINISHED
Ali Abdel Hafez NERFINISHED
commandStructure Egyptian General Staff NERFINISHED
conflict North Yemen Civil War NERFINISHED
country United Arab Republic NERFINISHED
deployedBy Gamal Abdel Nasser NERFINISHED
United Arab Republic government NERFINISHED
endTime 1970
financedBy United Arab Republic NERFINISHED
hasComponent Egyptian Air Force NERFINISHED
Egyptian armored units
Egyptian artillery units
Egyptian paratroopers
hasPrimaryComponent Egyptian Army NERFINISHED
historicalContext prelude to Six-Day War
ideology Arab nationalism
Nasserism NERFINISHED
involvedIn Arab Cold War NERFINISHED
Egypt–Saudi Arabian rivalry
leader Gamal Abdel Nasser NERFINISHED
location Saada region NERFINISHED
Sanaʽa NERFINISHED
Taiz NERFINISHED
Yemen NERFINISHED
objective defeat Yemeni royalist forces
support republican government in North Yemen
opposed Yemeni royalists NERFINISHED
opposedBy Jordanian-supported elements
Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED
partOf Egyptian Armed Forces NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
theaterOfOperations North Yemen NERFINISHED
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