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Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
Part of the Arab Winter, the Yemeni Crisis and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

Military situation in Yemen on 16 July 2018
  Controlled by the Supreme Political Council (Houthis)
  Controlled by the Hadi-led government and allies
(For a map of the military situation in Yemen and border areas in Saudi Arabia, see here.)
Date19 March 2015 – ongoing
(9 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Status

Ongoing

Territorial
changes
As of May 2016: AQAP controls 36% of the country (193,000 km²)[37]
Main belligerents

Supreme Political Council

Alleged support:

Hadi government

Saudi-led coalition
 Saudi Arabia[14]
 United Arab Emirates[15]
 Senegal[16]
 Sudan[17][18]
 Morocco[19]
 Qatar[17] (2015–17)[20]
Various mercenaries[21]

Under 1,000 troops:

France French Special Forces[22]


Southern Transitional Council (from 2017)[27]
Tareq Saleh forces (from 2017)[28][29]


Ansar al-Sharia


Islamic State ISIL-YP[35][36]
Commanders and leaders
Casualties

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Ali Mohsen (2016–)
Khaled Bahah (2015–16)
Hussein Arab (until 2017)
Ahmed Saleh (2017–)[11]
Tareq Saleh (2017–)
Saudi-led coalition:
King Salman
Muhammad bin Salman
Khalifa bin Zayed
Tamim bin Hamad (2015–17)
Omar al-Bashir
Macky Sall
Mohamed VI

Casualties

Nasir al-Wuhayshi 
Qasim al-Raymi
Nasser al-Ansi 
Ibrahim al-Rubaish 
Khalid Batarfi
Ibrahim al Qosi[75]


Abu Bilal al-Harbi[76]
Strength

Supreme Political Council:

150,000–200,000 fighters[77]

100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers (claim)[78]
30 warplanes[79]
15 warplanes[79] and 300 troops[80]
15 warplanes[79]
10 warplanes and 1,000 soldiers[79][81]
6 warplanes[79]
6 warplanes[79] and 1,500 troops[79][19]
4 warplanes and 6,000 troops[82][83]
2,100 troops[79]
4 warships[84] and warplanes[85]
Academi: 1,800 security contractors[86]


AQAP: 6,000-8,000[87][88][89][90]


ISIL: 300[91]
Casualties and losses

Thousands killed.[92]

11,000+ killed as of December 2017 (Arab Coalition claim)[93]

Unknown
Saudi Arabia 1,000 – 3,000 [a] soldiers killed[92]
United Arab Emirates 120 soldiers killed[94]
Sudan 412 soldiers killed[95]
Bahrain 8 soldiers killed[96]
Qatar 4 soldiers killed[97]
Morocco 1 soldier killed[98]
15 Academi mercenaries killed (Dec. 2015)[99]


100–800+ killed[100]

50,000+ killed overall in Yemen (total number unknown)[101] (5,202+ civilians)[102][103]
500+ killed overall in Saudi Arabia[104]
49,960 wounded overall in Yemen[103]
3,154,572 people displaced[105]

Excess deaths: Unknown
Estimated more than 50,000 children and an unknown number of adults died from starvation in just the year 2017 [34][106][107][108][109] and 2,255 people since 27 April 2017 as of February 15th, 2018 died from Cholera[110]

a 1,000+ killed according to Al Jazeera (by May 2018),[92] 3,000+ killed according to The Independent (by March 2016)[111]
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