Timeline of the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)

The following is a timeline of the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), which began in March 2015 and is ongoing.

2015

• 19 March: The Battle of Aden Airport occurs and is won by the Hadi government.
• 22 March: The Ma'rib Campaign begins
• 24 March: The Battle of Dhale begins
• 25 March: President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi flees the Yemeni capital Sana'a. The same day, Saudi Arabia began airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen^[1]
• 25 March: The Battle of Aden (2015) begins
• 26 March: Saudi Air Force planes launch airstrikes on Sana'a International Airport and the al Dulaimi military airport, killing 17 people.^[2]
• 26 March: Operation Decisive Storm begins.
• 26 March: The Abyan campaign (March–August 2015) begins.
• 27 March: Saudi and Egyptian forces lead a coalition to attack positions in Yemen for the second day in a row, leaving 10 deaths in the Saada Governorate. Saudi Arabia also declares a "no-fly zone" will be enforced.^[3]
• 27 March: The Lahij insurgency begins.
• 28 March: As airstrikes continue, Saudi Arabia claims full control over Yemen's airspace.^[4] They also claim to have destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile stockpile while evacuating a United Nations mission in Sana'a.^[5]
• 29 March: Despite the no-fly zone declared by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan sends a Boeing 747 to evacuate Pakistani nationals from Yemen in response to the crisis.^[6]
• 29 March: The Shabwah campaign (March–August 2015) begins.
• 30 March: China evacuates its nationals from Yemen due to concerns about the security situation.^[7] Saudi airstrikes also hit a refugee camp in Harad District killing at least 40 people while the Houthis make gains in Hadi's last bastion, Aden.^[8]
• 2 April: Al-Qaeda attacks a prison in Al Mukalla, freeing 270 prisoners in the process.^[9]
• 2 April: The Saudi–Yemeni border conflict (2015–present) begins.
• 2 April: The Battle of Mukalla (2015) begins.
• 3 April: Saudi planes drop weapons and medical supplies over Tawahi.^[10]
• 10 April: Pakistan votes to not join the coalition in Yemen in parliament.^[11] The United Nations also warns that the situation is continuing to deteriorate as they bring in humanitarian aid to the country.^[12] India has also evacuated 5600 people from Yemen including 690 nationals as part of Operation Raahat despite the no-fly zone imposed on the country.^[13]
• 11 April: Saudi Arabia claims that airstrikes have killed over 500 Houthis. The Yemeni government claims that 385 civilians have been killed with another 342 wounded. The World Health Organization however claims that 648 people were killed and 2,191 wounded, including militant casualties.^[14]
• 14 April: The United Nations Security Council votes to impose sanctions on the Houthi rebels with 14-0 with one abstention from Russia.^[15]
• 15 April: The Taiz campaign (2015–present) begins.
• 16 April: al-Qaeda captures Riyan Airport in the southern city of Al Mukalla, Ending the Battle of Mukalla (2015) which had gone on for 2 weeks. ^[16]
• 21 April: Operation Decisive Storm ends.
• 22 April: Operation Restoring Hope begins.
• 26 May: The Battle of Dhale ends.
• 22 July: The Battle of Aden (2015) ends.
• 4 August: The Lahij insurgency ends.
• 11 August: The Abyan campaign (March–August 2015) ends.
• 15 August: The Shabwah campaign (March–August 2015) ends.
• 4 September: The September 2015 Ma'rib Toshka missile attack occurs.
• 6 October: The Aden unrest (2015–present) begins.
• 6 October: The October 2015 Aden missile attack occurs.
• 6 December: The 2015 Aden car bombing begins.
• 19 December: Battle of Port Midi begins.

2016

• 23 January: The first phase of the Battle of Port Midi ends, Although an insurgency continues.
• 1 February: Al-Qaeda captured Azzan^[17]
• 2 February: The Southern Abyan Offensive (2016) begins.
• 20 February: The Southern Abyan Offensive (2016) ends.
• 22 February: The Abyan conflict (2016–2018) begins.
• 4 March: The Missionaries of Charity attack in Aden occurs.
• medio March: bombing of Khamees Market in Mustaba'a, Hajjah.^[18] The US-supplied precision-guided Mark 84 bomb killed 97 people.^[19]
• 25 March: The 2016 Aden car bombing occurs.
• 24 April: The Battle of Mukalla (2016) begins.
• 25 April: The Battle of Mukalla (2016) ends.
• 26 April: The Hadramaut Insurgency begins.
• 15 May: The May 2016 Yemen police bombings occur.
• 23 May: The 23 May 2016 Yemen bombings occur.
• 28 June: The June 2016 Mukalla attacks occur.
• 29 August: The August 2016 Aden bombing occurs.
• 1 October: UAE ship HSV-2 Swift attacked and damaged by Houthi missile off Yemeni coast.
• 8 October: The 2016 Sana'a funeral airstrike occurs.
• 2-3 December: The cities of Zinjibar and Jaar fall to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
• 10-18 December: The December 2016 Aden suicide bombings occur.
• 14 December: The December 2015 Taiz missile attack occurs.
• 16 December: The Nihm Offensive begins.

2017

• 23 January: Pro-Hadi forces seize the port of Mokha from the Houthis. Mokha had been under Houthi control since Nov. 2014.^[20]
• 29 January: The Raid on Yakla occurs.
• 18 April: A Saudi Black Hawk helicopter was shot down killing 12 soldiers. Houthis claim to have shot it down.^[21]
• 23 May 2017: The Raid on Al Hathla occurs.
• 4 November: A ballistic missile fired by the Houthis was intercepted over King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[22] It was reportedly a Volcano H-2 missile though the US said it was an Iranian Qiam 1.^[23]
• 28 November: Battle of Sana'a erupts in the capital between pro-Saleh and Houthi forces.
• 4 December: The Battle of Sana'a (2017) ends.
• 6 December: The Al Hudaydah offensive begins.
• 7 December: Pro-Hadi forces seize the Al-Khoukha district, an area on the Red sea coast ^[24]

2018

• 28 January: The Southern Transitional Council captured the government headquarters in Aden. Thereupon, Yemen's Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr spoke of a "coup" and asked Saudi Arabia for military support.^{[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]}
• 10 February: Ansar Allah claims that it destroyed a PAC-3 air defense system in Mocha.^[37]
• 17 February: A military opperation left 19 insurgents and 8 soldiers dead. The clashes occurred in Al Masini valley.^[38]

• 22 April: Airstrike occurs in Hajjah Governorate. The attack left between 33, 43 and 55 deaths.

• 30 April: The United Arab Emirates take over the island of Socotra.
• 3 June: The Vos Theia, a vessel charted by the World Food Programme to deliver aid, was attacked by a skiff off the coast of Al-Hudaydah, after having delivered supplies to the city.^[39][40]
• 13 June: The Battle of Al Hudaydah begins.
• 3 July: Saudi warplanes bomb a wedding party in Saada Governorate, killing at least eight people.^[41]
• 6 July: A suspect U.S. drone strike kills seven alleged al-Qaeda militants in Shabwah Governorate.^[42]
• 25 July: Houthis militants attacked two Saudi National Shipping Corp very large crude carriers in the Red Sea, prompting Saudi Arabia to temporarily suspend shipping crude oil through Bab el-Mandeb.^[43]
• 30 July: James Dorsey, is a senior fellow at Singapore Rajaratnam School of International Studies he said, “The Houthis are trying to provoke a situation where there’s a great effort to negotiate an end to the war in Yemen,” “The Saudis are trying to create a situation in which the U.S. would in one form or another significantly step up support so that they can claim military victory".^[44]
• 1 August – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Iran will block Bab al-Mandeb strait route at Red Sea he said, "If Iran will try to block the straits of Bab al-Mandeb, I am certain that it will find itself confronting an international coalition that will be determined to prevent this, and this coalition will also include all of Israel's military branches".^[45]
• August 9: A Saudi airstrike hit a bus in the Dahyan air strike, Sa'dah, reportedly killing dozens of children.^[46]
• October 13 / 14 - War plane from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates bombing Hodeidah. The attack left 17 people dead and another 20 were injured.^[47]

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