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    The Dhofar War (also known by other names) took place from 1963 to 1976 in the province of Dhofar against the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The war began...
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    Oman (section Dhofar War)
    Dhofar War, which began in 1963, pro-Soviet forces were pitted against government troops. As the rebellion threatened the Sultan's control of Dhofar,...
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    The Dhofar Governorate (Arabic: مُحَافَظَة ظُفَّار, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Ẓuffār) is the largest of the 11 governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms...
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    Tahrir Dhofar, DLF) which was based in Dhofar, the southern province of Oman. It was founded in 1962 by the Dhofar Benevolent Society (DBS), the Dhofar Soldiers’...
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    Dhofar Liberation Front (DLF) (Arabic: جبهة تحرير ظفار) was a communist front that was established to create a separatist state in Dhofar, the southern...
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    Keith Payne (category People of the Dhofar War)
    captain with the Army of the Sultan of Oman against communist forces in the Dhofar War in 1975 and 1976. Payne joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in 1975 and...
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    Qaboos bin Said in Oman on 23 July 1970. Occurring in the midst of the Dhofar War, the palace coup was executed with the British and saw Sultan Said bin...
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    Ranulph Fiennes (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    extensive active service in the Dhofar Rebellion. He led several raids deep into rebel-held territory on the Djebel Dhofar and was decorated for bravery...
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    Battle of Mirbat (category Dhofar War)
    targeting an Omani government position during the Dhofar Rebellion in the town of Mirbat, Oman. During the Dhofar Rebellion, Britain assisted the Omani government...
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    amnesty to all surrendering rebels while vigorously prosecuting the war in Dhofar. He obtained direct military support from the UK, imperial Iran, and...
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    Peter Ratcliffe (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    service in a number of conflicts, including the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman, The Troubles, the Falklands War, for which on 8th October 1982 he was Mentioned...
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    culminating in the Dhofar Rebellion against the Sultanate of Oman. The PFLOAG was organized in 1968 as the successor to the Dhofar Liberation Front. The...
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  • Mike Kealy (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf guerillas during the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman. Kealy died of hypothermia on 1 February 1979 when he...
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    Talaiasi Labalaba (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    Elizabethans: Talaiasi Labalaba". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2012. "Forgotten war hero honoured by royals". BBC News. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 25 October...
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    death of Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini, Britain and Zanzibar fought a 38-minute war, the shortest in recorded history. A struggle for succession took place as...
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    Jock Stirrup (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    a junior RAF officer, Stirrup was a jet pilot, and saw action in the Dhofar War. Later in his career, he commanded No. 2 Squadron and RAF Marham. After...
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    Aircraft based there operated during the Jebel Akhdar War between 1954 and 1957, and the Dhofar War between 1962 and 1976. The British presence at RAF Salalah...
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  • Timothy Landon (category British military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    military operation to help Sultan Said bin Taimur defeat the Soviet-backed Dhofar Rebellion. He was stationed in the south as an intelligence officer, but...
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    Najran, Jizan, Al-Bahah, and 'Asir, which are presently in Saudi Arabia, and Dhofar of present-day Oman. South Arabia is inhabited by people possessing distinctive...
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    Husayn Kharrazi (category Iranian military personnel of the Dhofar War)
    circumstances. While performing his military service, Kharrazi was sent to Dhofar. He deserted the armed forces finally in 1978, according to the direction...
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  • Many of the notionally Omani soldiers were recruited from the province of Dhofar, and were looked down upon by other Arabs. The Army was still unable to...
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  • extensive gardens with a falaj running through the grounds. During the Dhofar War, it was occupied by rebels for a short time and then housed an artillery...
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    The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), sometimes called the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to...
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    the Iranian Revolution. The IRIAF was heavily involved in the Iran–Iraq War, carrying out major operations like Operation Kaman 99, Operation Sultan...
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  • White. "Oman 1965-1976: From Certain Defeat to Decisive Victory", Small Wars Journal. Halliday, Fred. Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South...
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    Palestinian Liberation Organization which support separatists in the Dhofar War. In 1988, Oman recognized the state of Palestine and in 1989 Yasser Arafat...
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    The Oman–Zanzibar war (Arabic: حرب عمان - زنجبار; Swahili: Vita vya Oman-Zanzibar) was a 1784 conflict between the Omani Empire and Zanzibar. It was the...
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  • John Banks (mercenary recruiter) (category People of the Dhofar War)
    Sandhurst, Banks engaged in recruiting mercenaries for the war in Southern Rhodesia and Angolan Civil War. Some of the recruited mercenaries who fought for the...
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    buildings covered the country from the north of Musandam to the south of Dhofar, making Oman a great power in the Persian Gulf. During the later al Busaidi...
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