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Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979.
Aḥmad Ḥasan al-Bakr (born 1914, Tikrīt, Iraq—died Oct. 4, 1982, Baghdad) was the president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. Al-Bakr entered the Iraqi Military Academy in 1938 after spending six years as a primary-school teacher.
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The 17 July Revolution (Arabic: انقلاب 17 تموز, romanized: inqilāb 17 Tammūz) was a bloodless coup in Iraq in 1968 led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, and Abd ar-Rahman al-Dawud that ousted President Abdul Rahman Arif and Prime Minister Tahir Yahya and brought the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath ...
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Oct 5, 1982 · Former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr died today, Baghdad television announced. He was 68 years old. Mr. Bakr was President from 1968 until 1979, when he was replaced by Saddam Hussein, who...
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979.
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the Ba'ath Party came to power in Iraq through the bloodless 17 July 1968 Revolution, which overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif and Iraqi prime minister Tahir Yahya.
2 days ago · The Sunni Muslim extremists seized Mosul on June 10, 2014 and the group's then leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, soon made his first public appearance in the city's iconic Great Mosque of al-Nuri. In the lands they controlled, the jihadists banned music, burnt books and punished perceived wrongdoers by stoning them and cutting off the fingers of ...
