The following lists events that happened during

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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

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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 ...

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: ** Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf ** Taha Yassin Ramadan ** Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri

Events

* 18 February – Around 2,000 protesters gather in front of the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest (Washington, D.C.), NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president ...

protesting the US threats of military strikes in Iraq. * 22 February – UN Secretary General

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder a ...

arrives at an agreement with Iraqi officials to resolve the crisis over UN inspections teams' presence in Iraq. * 28 April – Construction starts on the Umm al-Qura Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Iraq. * 29 September – The Kurdish civil war officially ends with the signing of the Washington agreement. * November 13 – After Iraq commits to United Nations Special Commission, American President

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cancels scheduled air raids on the country. * November 23 – Iraq stops their UNSCOM partnership. * 16-19 December –The United States and Britain carry out a bombing campaign targeting Iraqi sites, the operation codenamed Operation Desert Fox.

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* The University of Diyala is established.

Births

* 7 January – Sajjad Jasim Mousa, footballer.

Deaths

* 27 September – Hadi Alwai, intellectual and historian.(b.1932)

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* Abd al-Malik Nuri, Iraqi writer. (b.1921) * Rabab Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi poet and surgeon.(b.1918).

References

{{Reflist Years of the 20th century in Iraq 1990s in Iraq