The following lists events that happened during

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Vice President A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vi ...

: ** Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf **

Taha Yassin Ramadan Taha Yassin Ramadan al-Jazrawi (; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the vice president of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 and the commander of the Pop ...

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (; 1 July 1942 – 26 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician, military officer and field marshal. He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council until the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States ...

Events

* 3 March – The

Iraqi National Congress The Iraqi National Congress (INC; ) is an Iraqi political party that was led by Ahmed Chalabi who died in 2015. It was formed as an umbrella opposition group of majority Feyli Kurds and shia Arabs, with the aid of the United States' governme ...

, backed by the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...

, along with the

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; ) is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the Disputed territories of Northern Iraq, disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describes its goals as self-determination, human rights, democracy a ...

attack the city of

Kirkuk Kirkuk (; ; ; ) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate. The city is home to a diverse population of Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraqi Turkmens and Arabs. Kirkuk sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Cit ...

, the incursion increased the opposition's foothold in northern Iraq but did not meaningfully change the map as the expected US support didn't materialize. * March – A failed coup against Saddam Hussain is carried out by former Iraqi military general Wafiq al-Samarrai. * 14 April – UN Security Council Resolution 986 is adopted to establish a mechanism for Iraqi sale of oil and receiving humanitarian aid in exchange to alleviate the suffering caused by the sanctions. This program is better known as the

Oil-for-Food Programme The Oil-for-Food Programme (OIP) was established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary I ...

. * 15 October – The first Iraqi presidential referendum is held, asking Iraqis to vote on their approval of the government.

Births

* January –

Mustafa Al-Bassam Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995) is an Iraqi- British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches. He ...

, Iraqi-British hacker and computer security expert. * 1 July –

Ahmed Yahya Ahmed Yahya Mahmoud Al-Hajjaj (, born 1 July 1995) is an Iraqi professional footballer who currently plays for Iraq Stars League club Al-Shorta and the Iraq national team. International Career On 16 June 2023, Yahya earned his first internati ...

, Iraqi footballer.

Deaths

* 13 July –

Ali Al-Wardi Ali Hussain Muhsin Al-Wardi () was an Iraqi sociologist and public intellectual specialized in the field of social history. Early life and education Born in Kadhimiya, Baghdad in 1913, to a religious and very traditional family. He grew up ...

, Iraqi sociologist and intellectual. (b.1913) * 8 September – Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian (b.1917) *

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