Battle of Harar

Battle of Harar
Part of Ogaden War
DateOctober 1977 – 27 January 1978
Location
Hararghe, Ethiopia
Result Ethiopian victory
Belligerents
Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen		 Somalia Somalia
WSLF
Strength
30,000 soldiers[1]
Cuba 3,000 soldiers[2]		 Somalia 20,000 soldiers[3]
Casualties and losses
3,000 casualties[4]
15 tanks captured
many APCs captured
28 artillery pieces captured[4]

The Battle of Harar was a battle of the Ogaden War. The battle took place from October 1977 until January 1978, and was fought near Harar, Ethiopia.[5] The Cuban soldiers took part supporting the Ethiopian army, during the battle they engaged the attackers in vicious fighting.[6]

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  2. ^ Tareke, Gebru (2000). "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited" (PDF). International Journal of African Historical Studies. 33 (3): 635–667. doi:10.2307/3097438. JSTOR 3097438. S2CID 159829531.
  3. ^ Tareke, Gebru (2000). "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited" (PDF). International Journal of African Historical Studies. 33 (3): 635–667. doi:10.2307/3097438. JSTOR 3097438. S2CID 159829531.
  4. ^ a b Tareke, Gebru (5 November 2013). "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited". The International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 33 No. 3 (2000) pp. 657.
  5. ^ Jesse, Neal G.; Dreyer, John R. (2016-06-16). Small States in the International System: At Peace and at War. Lexington Books. pp. 148–149. ISBN 9781498509701.
  6. ^ Clodfelter 2017, p. 557.