1999 Shia uprising in Iraq

1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
	Part of the Persian Gulf Conflicts
	Baghdad Karbala Nasiriyah Najaf Basra; Epicenters of the uprising
Date	18 February – April 1999
Location	Iraq
Result	Iraqi government victory; uprising suppressed
Belligerents
Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces; Republican Guard; Fedayeen Saddam; Ba'ath Party;	Rebels: SCIRI / Badr; Dawa;
Commanders and leaders
Saddam Hussein; President of Iraq; Ali Hassan al-Majid; Iraqi Intelligence Director; Taha Yasin; Vice President of Iraq; Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri; Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council; Tariq Aziz; Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council; Qusay Hussein; Son of Saddam Hussein	Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim; Leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq; Abdul Aziz al-Hakim; Leader of the Badr Corps; Hadi al-Amiri; Badr Corps commander
Casualties and losses
180+ dead	Dozens dead, wounded and arrested
	200+ dead

The 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq (Arabic: انتفاضة العراق 1999, romanized: intifāḍa al-ʿIrāq 1999) or Second Sadr Uprising (انتفاضة الصدر intifāḍa ṣadara) was a short period of unrest in Iraq in early 1999 following the killing of Muhammad al-Sadr by the then Ba'athist government of Iraq. The protests and ensuing violence were strongest in the heavily Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad, as well as southern majority Shiite cities such as Karbala, Nasiriyah, Kufa, Najaf, and Basra.

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