– in Asia (tan & white)– in South Arabia (tan)The Democratic Republic of Yemen (Arabic: جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية Jumhūriyyat al-Yaman ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyah), was a short-lived breakaway state that fought against the mainland Yemen in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War.

The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the civil war of 1994.

Its leaders, in addition to Yemeni Socialist Party figures such as al-Beidh and Attas, included some prominent personalities from South Yemeni history such as Abdallah al-Asnaj, who had been strenuously opposed to YSP one-party rule in the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.

[2] The secession followed several weeks of fighting, which began on 27 April and lasted from 21 May 1994 until 7 July 1994.

The civil war ended by the DRY strongholds of Mukalla and Aden falling to government forces.