Dhofar Liberation Front

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Dhofar Liberation Front (DLF; Arabic: جبهة تحرير ظفار, romanized: Jabhat Taḥrīr Ẓufār) was a revolutionary organization that operated from 1965 to 1968 in Dhofar which was under the control of Muscat and Oman. Established on 26 December 1964 following the merger of the Dhufari Soldiers' Organization and the Dhofar Benevolent Society, its main aims were to end the rule of Sultan Said bin Taimur, and to end British imperial influence in the region. The front initiated the Dhofar rebellion in June 1965. Initially an Arab nationalist and Dhufarist movement, the organization underwent an ideological shift toward Marxism–Leninism following the independence of South Yemen in 1967, eventually transforming into the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG) during the Hamrin Congress in 1968. The two key leadership figures that would be at the core of the organization were Musallam bin Nufl and Yusuf bin Alawi. They began the Dhofar rebellion against the Sultanate of...

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