1996 in Iraq

none 1996 The following lists events that happened during 1996 in Iraq. Incumbents President: Saddam Hussein Prime Minister: Saddam Hussein Vice President: Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf Taha Yassin Ramadan Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Events 24 March –Iraqi parliamentary election are held, the Ba'ath Party wins 161 seats out of 250, with significant gains to independent candidates as well as the appointment of 30 MPs to represent Kurdistan.https://academic.oup.com/book/36350 Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume I: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia 2001-11-15 Oxford University PressOxford 978-0-19-924958-9 Nohlen Dieter 1 en 10.1093/019924958x.001.0001 Grotz Florian Hartmann Christof 20 May – Iraq accepts and signs the revised Oil-for-Food Programme.Razi Farinaz https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/cc2818fd-9537-4ee9-92ad-012f89d20b57 Iraq and the United Nations: a review of the oil-for-food program 2002 978-0-612-87404-6 31 August – at the request of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership, Iraqi troops captured the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan held city of Erbil and the Battle of Erbil took place as part of the Kurdish Civil War.Visscher Tina From Victims to Victors to… Perpetrators? 2018-08-31 master https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/400/ nl 3 September– a US cruise missile airstrike campaign codenamed Operation Desert Strike is launched in retaliation of the Iraqi army involvement in the Kurdish Civil War.Graham Bradley September 4, 1996 U.S. Launches More Cruise Missiles Against Iraq https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/090496.htm 10 December – The Oil-for-Food Programme implementation begins with the first Iraqi oil export. Births 10 January – Tara Fares, model and influencer.(d.1918)Fletcher Lily 1 November 2018 Tara Fares: Iraqi social media star who attacked those who ‘chop off heads to prove there is a God’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tara-fares-dead-iraq-instagram-shooting-baghdad-a8611031.html 19 January – Ali Yousif Hashim, footballer.FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce14/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf Fifa.org 22 March – Aymen Hussein, footballer. 25 May – Sherko Kareem Lateef, footballer. 19 August – Ahmed Basil Fadhil, footballer. 16 November – Munaf Younis, footballer. 6 December – Mohammed Qasim Majid, footballer. 22 December – Bashar Resan Bonyan, footballer. Deaths 23 February – Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law (b.1960)Ibrahim Youssef M. 1996-05-10 Iraqi Offers Regrets in Killing of Defecting Sons-in-Law https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/10/world/iraqi-offers-regrets-in-killing-of-defecting-sons-in-law.html 2025-02-23 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 23 February – Saddam Kamel, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law (b.1960) 11 March – Zaki al-Sarraf, journalist and poet. 15 October – Toma Tomas, Iraqi Assyrian politician (b.1924) 22 October – Mustafa Jamal al-Din, scholar and writer. (b.1926)العتابي عبد الجبار 2012-02-13 أسرة مصطفى جمال الدين.. ترفض مجددا نقل رفاته من دمشق https://elaph.com/Web/Culture/2012/2/716207.html 2025-02-23 Elaph - إيلاف ar References 1996 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Iraq Category:1990s in Iraq Category:1996 by country Category:1996 in Asia