Iraqi Army

Sub-units 11

People who served 22

Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai General · 1960–2003

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Field Marshal · 1962–2003 Abu Ali al-Anbari Major · 1982–1988 Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi Captain · 1993–2003 Kamel Sajid Lieutenant General Mizban Khadr al-Hadi Lieutenant General

Ali Hassan al-Majid General Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Brigadier General · ?–2003

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr General

Abd al-Karim Qasim Lieutenant General

Abdul Rahman Arif General

Abdul Salam Arif General

Adnan Khairallah Soldier

Maher Abd al-Rashid General

Salah Aboud Mahmoud Lieutenant General

Sadi Tuma Abbas General

Ra'ad al-Hamdani Lieutenant General

Wafiq al-Samarrai General

Abd al-Ameer Yarallah General

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat

Khaled al-Obaidi General

Othman al-Ghanmi General

Strength and losses

2023 Strength: 180,000

Movements

September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
May 1941 – September 1941 Middle East Theatre of World War II
May 2–31, 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War
1948 Battle of Jenin (1948)
May 15, 1948 – March 10, 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
September 11, 1961 – March 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
June 5–10, 1967 Six-Day War
October 6–25, 1973 Yom Kippur War
1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
September 22 – November 10, 1980 Battle of Khorramshahr (1980)
November 6, 1980 – September 27, 1981 Siege of Abadan
November 29 – December 7, 1981 Operation Tariq al-Quds
March 22–28, 1982 Operation Fath ol-Mobin
April 24 – May 24, 1982 Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas
July 13 – August 3, 1982 Operation Ramadan
February 9–25, 1986 Operation Dawn 8
January 8 – February 26, 1987 Operation Karbala-5
January 8 – February 26, 1987 Siege of Basra
June 1987 Operation Nasr 4
April 17–18, 1988 Second Battle of al-Faw
August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
August 2–4, 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
January 29 – February 1, 1991 Battle of Khafji
February 26, 1991 Battle of 73 Easting
February 27, 1991 Battle of Kuwait International Airport
May 1994 – November 24, 1997 Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
March 20 – May 1, 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq
March 20, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraq War
March 23–29, 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah
March 24 – April 4, 2003 Battle of Najaf (2003)
March 26, 2003 Operation Northern Delay
May 1, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
November 7 – December 23, 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah
February 22, 2006 – May 15, 2008 Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
June 17 – November 15, 2006 Battle of Ramadi (2006)
March 25–31, 2008 Battle of Basra (2008)
December 30, 2013 – December 9, 2017 War in Iraq (2013–2017)
December 30, 2013 – June 25, 2014 Anbar campaign (2013–2014)
June 4–10, 2014 Fall of Mosul
June 5–25, 2014 Islamic State invasion of Iraq
June 11, 2014 – October 22, 2015 Second Battle of Baiji
June 13, 2014 Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
June 13, 2014 War against the Islamic State
October 24–26, 2014 Liberation of Jurf Al Sakhar
March 2 – April 17, 2015 Second Battle of Tikrit
March 24, 2016 Shirqat offensive (2016)
May 22 – June 26, 2016 Third Battle of Fallujah
October 16, 2016 – July 20, 2017 Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)
August 20 – September 2, 2017 Battle of Tal Afar (2017)
September 20 – October 8, 2017 Battle of Hawija
October 15–20, 2017 Battle of Kirkuk (2017)
October 15–27, 2017 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict