North Yemen
Proper noun
Meaning
North Yemen
(historical) A country in the Middle East until 1990.
Examples
In 1979, a flareup between North Yemen and South Yemen prompted the U.S. to sell 14 F-5E/Fs to North Yemen to boost its air defense.
No fewer than a third of them were veterans of Egypt's continuing intervention into the North Yemen Civil War and another third were reservists.
North Yemen The International Red Cross hospital at Uqd, North Yemen, where the use of chemical weapons was alleged to have occurred.
The first attack of the North Yemen Civil War took place on June 8, 1963 against Kawma, a village of about 100 inhabitants in northern Yemen, killing about seven people and damaging the eyes and lungs of 25 others.
The only air combat actions ROCAF F-5E/F pilots saw, were not over Taiwan, but in North Yemen.
In 1990, after years of conflict, pro-Western North Yemen and pro-Soviet South Yemen merged to form a single nation, the Republic of Yemen.