Battle of Saddam City

Battle of Saddam City
Part of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq
Date March 1991 Location Saddam City, Baghdad, Ba'athist Iraq 33°20′00″N 44°26′00″E / 33.3333°N 44.4333°E / 33.3333; 44.4333 Result Iraqi government victory
Belligerents
Ba'athist Iraq	Shi'a rebels: SCIRI & Badr Islamic Dawa Party Iraqi Army deserters
Commanders and leaders
Qusay Hussein	unknown
Units involved
Republican Guard	unknown
Strength
7,000 soldiers	unknown
class=notpageimage| Location within Iraq

The Battle of Saddam City occurred in March 1991 as part of the wider anti-Saddam uprisings across Iraq, although the uprising in the Saddam City district of Baghdad was far more limited in scale than the kind of uprisings seen in southern Iraq. In response to the unrest in Saddam City, Saddam Hussein's son Qusay Hussein led a siege of the district, with dissent being repressed. Baghdad as a whole remained quiet, with the capital serving not as a center for the uprisings, but as a staging post for the government counter-offensive.^[1]