Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari

Barwari was a Kurd[2] and was born in Duhok in 1966. In his late teens, he joined the Peshmerga, a Kurdish resistance movement that opposed the Ba'athist government, which eventually became the armed forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. . Prior to joining the Iraqi Army in 2004, he was still in the Peshmerga.

Barwari 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 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]

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

• Iraq War
• War on Terror