siege, Cold War

Siege of Sanaa

Name: Siege of Sanaa
Location: Sanaa, Yemen

Siege of Sanaa was a siege conducted in November 1967 at Sanaa, in what is now Yemen; it ran into the following year. It was part of the North Yemen civil war, which ran from 1962 to 1970. The recorded result: Republican victory. Recorded strength: 8,000 soldiers; 50,000 tribesmen against 4,000 soldiers.

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Prince Mohamed bin Hussein, deputy to Imam Badr, in command of the royalist forces besieging San'a, December 1967.. Mark Lennox-Boyd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

FoughtNovember 1967ran into the following year

WhereSanaa, Yemen15.350N, 44.200E

OutcomeRepublican victory

BelligerentsMutawakkilite Kingdom of YemenagainstYemen Republic

Part ofNorth Yemen civil war1962 to 1970

Record

Date	November 1967 (month precision) to February 1968
Place	Sanaa, Yemen 15.350N, 44.200E
Kind	Siege, Cold War
Strength	8,000 soldiers; 50,000 tribesmen	4,000 soldiers
Commanders	Mohamed bin Hussein	Hassan al-Amri

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Sanaa AD 570, same recorded site
Battle of Zafar AD 632, 128 km S
Siege of Najran AD 523, 238 km N
Capture of Aden 1548, 297 km S
Siege of Aden 1513, 300 km S

In the same war

After: Siege of Saná 1967

Elsewhere in 1967

Siege of Sanaa is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 18 in present-day Yemen.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q17034099, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Sanaa (1967), revision 1370745002, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.