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Modern Iraq was established from the former three Ottoman provinces, Baghdad Vilayet, Mosul Vilayet and Basra Vilayet, which were known as Al-'Iraq. The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret agreement between UK and France with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective sphere of influence and control in West Asia after the expected ...
After seizing Iraqi state power in February 1963, divisions between pro and anti-Nasser Ba'ath leaders, as well as between right and left pan-Arab nationalist Ba'ath leaders led to the first Ba'ath government in Iraq's collapse in November 1963, while 7,000 Iraqi communists remained imprisoned.
Iraqi Army officers stationed in northern Iraq, 1966; Kurdish rebel leaders at an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) field hospital in northern Iraq, c. 1960s; Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein meeting Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani prior to signing the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement and ending hostilities, 1970
The Arabization of Kirkuk (Kurdish: بەعەرەبکردنی کەرکووک, [4] Turkish: Kerkük'ün Araplaşması) began in Ba'athist Iraq in the 1960s. In line with the wider Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, the Iraqi government worked to alter the demographic composition of the Kirkuk Governorate by ethnically cleansing non-Arabs—mainly Kurds, but also Turkmen and ...
The struggle was led by Mustafa Barzani in an attempt to establish an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Throughout the 1960s the uprising escalated into a long war, which failed to resolve despite internal power changes in Iraq. The war ended with a stalemate by 1970, resulting in between 75,000 [19] to 105,000 casualties. [20]
Republic of Iraq (Arabic: الجمهورية العراقية الأولى), retroactively known as First Iraqi Republic and also as, Iraqi Republic, Qasimist Iraq (1958–1963) and Nasserist Iraq (1963–1968), was the Iraqi state forged in 1958 under the rule of President Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i and Prime Minister Abdul-Karim Qasim. ar-Ruba'i and Qasim first came to power through the 14 ...
1960s establishments in Iraq (11 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1960 in Iraq (3 C, 2 P) 1961 in Iraq (3 C, 1 P) 1962 in Iraq (2 C) 1963 in Iraq (3 C, 3 P) 1964 in Iraq (2 C) 1965 in ...
The Ramadan Revolution, also referred to as the 8 February Revolution and the February 1963 coup d'état in Iraq, was a military coup by the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party which overthrew the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul-Karim Qasim in 1963. It took place between 8 and 10 February 1963.