Native name فاضل جليل البرواري Rank Major general Role Military Commander | Name Fadhil al-Barwari | |
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Allegiance Peshmerga (1980's-2003)
Iraq (2003-present) Commands held Counter Terrorism Bureau Battles/wars Iraq War
First Battle of Fallujah
2004 Battle of Najaf
2004 Battle of Samarra
Operation Sayeed
Second Battle of Fallujah
Diyala campaign
Ninawa campaign
Battle of Basra
2010 Baghdad church attack
2014 Anbar Campaign Website www.facebook.com/fadhilAlbarwary Service/branch Iraqi Special Operations Forces People also search for Hadi Al-Amiri, Mohammed Bassel al-Tai, Abu Azrael, Hanan Saeed Mohsen al-Fatlawi Battles and wars Iraq War, First Battle of Fallujah, Battle of Najaf | ||
Years of service 1980's - present | ||
Major General Fadhil Jamil al-Barwari (born 1966) is an Iraqi military commander and the head of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Bureau. He joined the Iraqi Army in 2004 after the invasion. He quickly rose through the ranks of the military ladder, becoming the commanding officer of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF), an elite special forces detachment trained by the United States Army's Special Forces and equipped with American weaponry. In this capacity he has been directing Iraqi special forces in the 2014 Anbar campaign.
He is a Kurd and was born in 1966 in the Iraqi province of Dohuk, an area primarily inhabited by Kurds. In his late teens, he joined the Peshmerga, a Kurdish resistance movement that opposed the Ba'athist government. Prior to joining the Iraqi Army in 2004, he was still in the Peshmerga.