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HISTORY. On 14 July 1958 the Republic of Iraq was declared by a group of Army officers, after an armed coup d’étal in which the reigning King Faisal II and his uncle, the ex-Regent the Emir Abdul Ilah. and the Prime Minister, Nuri al Said, lost their lives. For the next 4 years the country was under the control of Gen. Qasim, who was executed on 9 Feb. 1963. following a coup d’état by the Army and Air Force on the previous day.
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Paxton, J. (1981). Iraq. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271104_76
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