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 ; 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 in February 1963 that overthrew the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul-Karim Qasim in favour of a Ba'athist government. The coup was followed nine months later by a counter coup that saw the removal of the new government and a purging of Ba'ath Party members.

The most powerful leader of the Ba'athist government that emerged from the coup 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. 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 government lasted approximately nine months, until Arif disarmed the National Guard in the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état. This was followed by a purge of Ba'ath Party members.