Fadhil Barwari

Fadhil Jamil Barwari
Barwari in 2009
Native name
فاضل جميل برواري
Born1 April 1966
Died20 September 2018 (aged 52)
Allegiance Peshmerga (1980s–2003)
Iraq (2003–2018)
Branch ISOF
Service years1980s–2018
Rank Major General
Unit 36th Commando Battalion
Conflicts

Fadhil Jamil Barwari (1 April 1966 – 20 September 2018) was an Iraqi army general who served as the commander of the ISOF-1 brigade of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service. Prior to that, he served as the commander of the 36th Commando Battalion. In November 2017, Barwari was implicated in a corruption scandal to “cheat the US State Department out of millions of dollars”. He died of a heart attack in 2018.

Barwari was a graduate of the Second Iraqi Military Academy in Zakho.