{{Short description|Nationalist political alliance}} The '''National Union Front''' ({{langx|ar|جبهة الاتحاد الوطني|Jabhat al-Ittihad al-Watani}}) was an [[Iraqi nationalism|Iraqi nationalist]] [[political alliance]] formed in 1954 and re-established in 1956 as a coalition of the [[Ba'ath Party]], the [[Iraqi Communist Party]], the [[Iraqi Independence Party]], the [[National Democratic Party (Iraq, 1946)|National Democratic Party]] and later the [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]].<ref>Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. ''Historical Dictionary of Iraq''. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 170-171.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://almadasupplements.com/news.php?action=view&id=20740#sthash.mKrc7aAH.dpbs|title=National Union Front and the fall of the monarchy|last=Al-Qaisy|date=2019|website=Al-Mada|access-date=2019-02-17|archive-date=2019-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218021440/http://almadasupplements.com/news.php?action=view&id=20740#sthash.mKrc7aAH.dpbs|url-status=dead}}</ref> The alliance supported various Arab nationalist and liberation movements around the world, supporting the governments in [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] and supporting the Algerian liberation movement.<ref>Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. ''Historical Dictionary of Iraq''. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 171.</ref> The alliance splintered and dissolved in the aftermath of the 1958 revolution led by [[Abd al-Karim Qasim]] after division across between Arab nationalists and Iraqi communists.<ref>Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. ''Historical Dictionary of Iraq''. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 171.</ref>
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