Significant1965 – 1976 · 11 years

Dhofar Rebellion

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Dhofar · Salalah · Oman

Estimated casualties

2.0K – 10Kestimated dead

Approx. 8,000 noncombatant deaths estimated; 719 Iranian troops killed; precise totals never compiled.

SOURCEscholarly

A 1965–1976 leftist insurgency in Oman's Dhofar region against the Al Bu Said sultanate and British presence, backed by South Yemen and waged by the Dhofar Liberation Front and later the Marxist PFLOAG. British, Iranian and Jordanian support helped the sultanate defeat it by 1976.

Belligerents2

Oman (with UK, Iran, Jordan)
PFLOAG / Dhofar Liberation Front

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Jebel Akhdar1971
Battle of Mirbat1972

Sources

Wikipedia: Dhofar rebellion
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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