1959 Mosul uprising

1959 Mosul uprising
	Part of the Arab Cold War and Aftermath of the 14 July Revolution
	; Colonel Abd al-Wahab Shawaf , leader of coup
Date	7–11 March 1959
Location	Mosul, Iraq
Result	Attempted coup fails Iraq remains outside of UAR; Degradation in Iraq-UAR relations; Iraqi Communists increase in power; Iraqi Ba'athists begin to increase in strength;
Belligerents
Iraqi Government Communist Party; Sympathetic Kurdish tribes;	Arab nationalists Ba'ath Party; Sympathetic Arab tribes; Supported by; United Arab Republic.
Commanders and leaders
Abd al-Karim Qasim (Prime Minister of Iraq); Kamil Kazanchi †; (Leader of parading Communists)	Col. Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf †; (Commander of Iraqi Army Mosul Garrison); Sheik Ahmed Ajil †; (Leader of the Shammar Tribe); Gamal Abdel Nasser; (President of Egypt); Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj; (Chairman of the Executive Council of the Northern Region of the United Arab Republic)
Casualties and losses
	2,426

The 1959 Mosul Uprising was an attempted coup by Arab nationalists in Mosul who wished to depose the then Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, and install an Arab nationalist government which would then join the Republic of Iraq with the United Arab Republic. Following the failure of the coup, law and order broke down in Mosul, which witnessed several days of violent street battles between various groups attempting to use the chaos to settle political and personal scores.

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