Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari

Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari
Barwari in 2009
Native name	فاضل جليل البرواري
Born	1966 (age 50–51) Dohuk, Iraq
Allegiance	Peshmerga (1980s–2003)  Iraq (2003–present)
Service/branch	ISOF
Years of service	1980s – present
Rank	Major General
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 Battle of Mosul (2016–17)

Iraq War

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.