ORGANIZATION FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE OCCUPIED SOUTH

yemeni independence group, founded 1965.

Created through a merger of organizations and leading personalities in North and South Yemen (including Muhammad Ahmad Nuʿman, Abdullah Ali Asnaj, and Muhammad Ali Jifri), the Organization for the Liberation of the Occupied South (OLOS) was originally a rival of the National Liberation Front (NLF) but later joined elements of the NLF to create the Front for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY). Not long thereafter, the NLF insisted on its independence, and the two organizations were again rivals. Members of the al-Jifri family later became prominent in the operations and governance of the Yemeni Socialist Party, until exiled after the Yemeni civil war of 1994.

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