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4 unusual facts about Iraqi Army


9th Parachute Assault Regiment

In Iraq, Operation Antica Babilonia (Italian contingent of Multinational force 2003 - 2006) includes a section of special forces operatives, from the 9th, the Carabinieri's GIS and the Navy's COMSUBIN, mostly deployed for patrol missions, training local police and Army, and to arrest suspects of terrorism.

Hay Al-Sihah

AL-Kafa'at (Residence) is the most recent part of the district lies to the north of the compound, it was distributed to the Competent Officers in the ex-Iraqi Army, but it have been randomly built and lost its original map.

Iraqi Army Ranks Insignia

This article is about the Iraqi Army Ranks Insignia.

Terrorism in the Grip of Justice

It features footage of forced confessions of guilt from captured Iraqis who were captured by the Iraqi Army or U.S. Military.


18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings

The attacks came as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that Iraqi forces would assume control of the country's security by the end of the year, and they also came as officials from more than 60 countries attended a UN conference in Geneva on the plight of Iraqi refugees.

Al Ubaidi

Following Operation Steel Curtain, in which US Marines and Iraqi Army units swept the city of insurgents, the streets were secured by a combination of Iraqi Army and Marine forces.


see also

Assyrian genocide

In 1933 a massacre of thousands of unarmed Assyrians took place at Simele and other areas in Iraq at the hands of the Iraqi Army and Kurdish irregulars.

Balad Ruz

The current commander of all Iraqi Army ground forces, Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid is from Balad Ruz.

Faysh Khabur

The village was targeted again during the first Kurdish rebellion by the Sindi Kurdish tribe first and later by the Iraqi Army, this forced the inhabitants to seek refuge in Khanik, another Assyrian village across the border in Syria, until 1975.

Gulf Research Center

GRC publications in 2006 included the Gulf Yearbook and the Green Gulf Report, ten research papers including "Impact of the Disbandment of the Iraqi army on the Security Situation in Iraq," ten Gulf papers including "The Arab Gulf States: Further steps towards political participation," ten Gulf Translations, and three Gulf Theses including one about GCC-EU relations.

Iraq Petroleum Company

Abd al-Karim Qasim was a nationalist Iraqi Army general who seized power in a 1958 coup d'état in which the Iraqi monarchy was eliminated.

Iraqi Army Ranks Insignia

However, this rank is no longer in use by the new Iraqi Army, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Fourth President of Iraq, was the first president who held this rank during his term in office, followed by Saddam Hussein.

John M. LeMoyne

Upon LeMoyne's retirement Florida Senator Bill Nelson noted that his unit led the Hail Mary behind the Iraqi Army in Kuwait, contributing to the quick end of hostilities.

Mohan al-Furayji

The operation faced heavy resistance from the Mahdi Army and quickly bogged down with the 52nd Iraqi Army Brigade reportedly breaking during the fighting.

Mushir

(Hussein never actually served in the Iraqi Army but commanded as ruler of Iraq.) After Saddam Hussein's fall in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the rank of Mushir became obsolete in the new Iraqi military.

Operation Secret Storm

Operation Secret Storm is an action-oriented NES game where you control a secret agent named George B. (which was seen by many as a caricature of then-President George H. W. Bush) as he fights the Iraqi army.