Yemeni Armed Forces

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The Yemeni Armed Forces (Arabic: الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْيَّمَّنِيَّة, romanized: al-Qūwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Yamaniyya) are the military forces of the Republic of Yemen. They include the Yemeni Army (Yemeni Ground Forces and Republican Guard), Yemeni Naval Forces and Coastal Defense (including the Marines) and the Yemeni Air Forces and Air Defense (including the Air Defense Force) and the Homeland Shield Forces, for the SPC, it includes the Yemeni Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Strategic Reserve Forces & Unmanned Aviation Arm & the Rocket Force. Since the start of the current civil war in 2014, the armed forces have been divided; at first with one side being loyalists of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and Houthi fighters and the other side being pro-Yemeni government forces of former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi; as of 2026, between the internationally recognized Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), and the Houthi-led Supreme Political Council (SPC). to distinguish between...

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