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 Top20Iraq.com - Your Top20 Guide to Iraq!
It brought Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qassim's leftist government to power (which withdrew from the Baghdad Pact and established friendly relations with the Soviet Union), from 1958 till 1963, when he was overthrown by Colonel Abdul Salam Arif.
Salam Arif died in 1966 and his brother, Abdul Rahman Arif, assumed the presidency.
In 1968, Rahman Arif was overthrown by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
www.top20iraq.com   (2771 words)

  
 History of Iraq - The History Beat
Abdul Karim Qasim took power in July 1958 coup, during which King Faysal II and Prime Minister Nuri as-Said were killed, and declared a republic.
Qasim was assassinated in February 1963, when the Arab Socialist Renaissance Party (Ba'ath Party) took power under the leadership of Gen. Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr as prime minister and Col. Abdul Salam Arif as president.
In April 1966, Arif was killed in a plane crash and was succeeded by his brother, Gen. Abdul Rahman Mohammad Arif.
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