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| 1959 Mosul Uprising | |||||||
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| Part of the Arab Cold War and Aftermath of the 14 July Revolution | |||||||
  Mosul | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Iraqi Government |
 Arab nationalists
 United Arab Republic[3][4][5] United States[6]
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Abd al-Karim Qasim Kamil Kazanchi † |
Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf † Saddam Hussein Ahmed Ajil † Gamal Abdel Nasser | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 2,426[7] | |||||||
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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- ^ Davies, Eric (2005). Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. University of California Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780520235465.
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- ^ Podeh, Elie (1999). The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and Fall of the United Arab Republic. Sussex Academic Press. p. 85. ISBN 1-902210-20-4.