Sarfait

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Sarfait (Sarfayt) is a settlement in the Dhofar Governorate of Oman on the coast of the Arabian Sea, near the border with Yemen. There is an international border checkpoint at Sarfait; on the Yemeni side of the border is the settlement of Hawf.

History

There was much conflict in the area between the Omani government and communist-inspired armed guerrillas during the Dhofar Rebellion in the 1960s and 1970s. On 9 June 1975, an aggressive mortar and missile attack was launched on Sarfait.{{cite book|last=Plekhanov|first=Sergey|title=A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-U8BL-tEPLwC|year=2004|publisher=Trident Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-900724-70-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-U8BL-tEPLwC/page/n126 124]}} In September 1975, the government forces responded and took formal military action against the PFLO.{{cite book|last=MacKenzie|first=Alastair|title=Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7oZHOrWvnIC&pg=PA146|date=15 December 2011|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84885-071-2|page=146}}{{cite book|last=Owtram|first=Francis|title=A Modern History of Oman: Formation of the State Since 1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41h0bXfVtfYC&pg=PA132|date=18 September 2004|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-617-1|page=132}} Led by John Akehurst, a diversionary attack was launched by the Dhofar Brigade of the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces from the government's mountaintop garrison in Sarfait.{{cite book|last=Goldman|first=Lawrence|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|date=7 March 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-967154-0|page=11}}

References

Category:Populated coastal places in Oman

Category:Oman–Yemen border crossings