Fadhil Barwari

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Fadhil Jamil Barwari
ISOF
Years of service1980s–2018
RankMajor General
UnitCommander of Iraqi Special Operations Forces 1st Brigade (ISOF-1)
Commands held Counter Terrorism Bureau
Known forRetaking Cities from The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Battles/warsIraq War

Fadhil Jamil Barwari (1966 – 20 September 2018) was an Iraqi

Daesh during the War in Iraq 2013-2017
.

History

Barwari was born in Duhok in 1966 to Kurdish family from Zahko.[2] Prior to joining the [[Peshmerga]], a Kurdish resistance movement that opposed the Ba'athist government, he graduated from the Second Military College in Zahko.

Barwari started out as a Lieutenant in 1991, 1st Lieutenant in 1998, Captain in 2000 and Major in 2002 in the Peshmerga. In the new Iraqi Army he became a Lieutenant Colonel in 2003, Colonel in 2005, Brigadier General in 2007 and Finally Major General in 2008.

He was also the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion Commander from 2003-2005 until it was incorporated into the ISOF (Iraqi Special Operations Forces).

In 2005 he became commander of ISOF-1 and also becoming Head of Special Operations in 2007 leading until his death in 2018.

Barwari rejoined the

Special Forces and equipped with American weaponry. In this capacity, he directed Iraqi special forces in the 2014 Anbar campaign.[3]

In November 2017, two former DynCorp workers testified in an Alexandria, Virginia federal court that Barwari paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars to arrange an overpriced lease of land the general owned near the Baghdad airport, starting in 2011.[4]

In August 2014 he led the Iraqi Special Forces in the Mosul Dam offensive which saw Mosul Dam retaken by a joint Iraqi-Kurdish offensive.

Barwari died on 20 September 2018 from a heart attack.[5][1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Witty, David M. (25 September 2018). "Remembering MG Fadhil Barwari - ISOF Cdr". SOF News. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  2. ^ Shanker, Thom (20 February 2006). "Elite Iraqi Unit Seeks Footing as It Fills U.S. Boots". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  3. ^ Berwani, Hawar (5 January 2014). "Al-Qaeda leader killed with 31 other al-Qaeda elements in Anbar – MG Fadhil Barwari". Iraqi News. Baghdad. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  4. Stripes.com. Archived from the original
    on 20 September 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  5. Rudaw.net
    (in Arabic). 20 September 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.