1959 Mosul uprising

The 1959 Mosul uprising was an attempted coup in the newly formed Iraqi Republicball in order to depose the then Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, and install an Arab nationalist government, which would go on to join United Arab Republicball. The coup ended in failure, and thus law and order broke down in Mosul, which witnessed several days of violent street battles between various groups attempting to use the chaos to settle political and personal scores.