Battle of Sanaa (2011)

Battle of Sanaa
	Part of the Yemeni Revolution
	; Sana'a city center
Date	23 May–7 June 2011; (2 weeks and 1 day); (First phase); 18 September–25 November 2011; (2 months and 1 week); (Second phase)
Location	Sanaa, Yemen
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
Yemeni government Yemen Army; Republican Guards; Yemeni Air Force; Police Force; People's Committees;	Joint Meeting Parties Alliance of Yemeni Tribes; Army defectors; Al-Islah militia; Anti-government protesters;
Commanders and leaders
Ali Abdullah Saleh (WIA); Gen. Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi; Gen. Ahmad Saleh; Gen. Ahmed bin Saeed; Gen. Ali Nasser Gatami †; Gen. Abdullah al-Kulaibi †; Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani (DOW)	Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar; Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar; Gen. Mohammed Khalil; Gen. Ibrahim al-Jayfi
Strength
26th Brigade; 63rd Brigade; 101st Brigade; Special Forces Brigade; Presidential Guard	25,000–30,000 fighters; 1st Armored Division; 9th Brigade; 200,000 protesters
Casualties and losses
97 soldiers killed; 20 soldiers missing; 30 soldiers captured; 1 policeman killed	258 tribal fighters killed; 98 defected soldiers killed
	149+ civilians killed; 16 unidentified killed

The Battle of Sanaa was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition tribal forces led by Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar for control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa and, on the part of the opposition, for the purpose of the downfall of president Saleh.

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