Yemen civil war

Much of what the U.S. Army learned from the Yemen Civil War was negative. Reports of possible chemical use in certain areas of the world, particularly those inaccessible to official and technical observers, were difficult to confirm or even to condemn without accurate and verifiable information. News reports alone proved informative but unreliable. Even samples from the alleged attacks apparently did not lead to further political or military action. Most importantly, with the world distracted by the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War and events in Vietnam, politics discouraged a universal condemna-... 

The Haig report, however, was not able to galvanize world opinion. Much like the situation during the Yemen Civil War, the United States was unable to prove beyond a shadow of the doubt that chemical agents and toxins had been used in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. Instead, the accusation became a political debate between the United States and the Soviet Union during President Ronald Reagan s administration. 

Two major uses of chemical weapons in the second half of the twentieth century have to be mentioned the Egyptian use in the North Yemen civil war (1962-1970), with numerous incidents of chemical weapons use and related casualties of approximately 1,500 fatalities and a similar number of injuries and the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988, which saw Iraqi chemical attacks against the Iranian armed forces with between 50,000 and 100,000 casualties, as well as a chemical weapons massacre against the Kurdish people in the city of Halabja, on 16 March 1988. ... 

Egypt intervenes in the Yemen Civil War by using Sulfur Mustard aerial bombs against royalist forces. 

September Civil war erupts in Yemen (Sanaa). Periodic claims come forward of chemical warfare (CW) use, mainly sulfur mustard and phosgene, supposedly supplied by Egypt and possibly the Union of Soviet Sociiist Republics (USSR). 16-28 October The... 

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