Ramadan Revolution

Ramadan Revolution
	Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War
	; Iraqi soldiers next to a sign with the image of Qasim taken down during the coup
Date	8–10 February 1963
Location	Republic of Iraq
Result	Iraqi Ba'athist victory Overthrow of Abd al-Karim Qasim; Establishment of Ba'athist government;
Belligerents
Iraqi Government Iraqi Armed Forces; Iraqi Communist Party	Iraqi Ba'ath Party; Iraqi Armed Forces (Ba'athist elements); National Guard militia; Supported by:; United States
Commanders and leaders
Abd al-Karim Qasim ; Fadhil al-Mahdawi ; Taha al-Ahmad ; Jalal al-Awqati X; Muhammad Najib; Husain al-Radi	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr; Ali Salih al-Sa'di; Salih Mahdi Ammash; Abdul Salam Arif
Casualties and losses
100 killed	80 killed
	1,500–5,000 alleged civilian supporters of Qasim and/or the Iraqi Communist Party killed during a three day "house-to-house search"

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. Qasim's former deputy, Abdul Salam Arif, who was not a Ba'athist, was given the largely ceremonial title of president, while prominent Ba'athist general Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was named prime minister. The most powerful leader of the new government was the secretary general of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, Ali Salih al-Sa'di, who controlled the National Guard militia and organized a massacre of hundreds—if not thousands—of suspected communists and other dissidents following the coup.

The government lasted approximately nine months, until Arif disarmed the National Guard in the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état, which was followed by a purge of Ba'ath Party members.