The 11th Infantry Division is a

formation (military) Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nation ...

of the

Iraqi Army The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), or the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It was known as the Royal Iraqi Army up until the coup ...

. During the

Iraqi occupation of Kuwait The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was an operation conducted by Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq on 2 August 1990, whereby it invaded the neighboring Kuwait, State of Kuwait, consequently resulting in a seven-month-long Iraqi military occupation of the countr ...

in 1990-91, the 11th Infantry Division occupied Kuwait City. It participated in the

Battle of Kuwait International Airport The Battle of Kuwait International Airport occurred on February 27, 1991, during the 1st Gulf War. It was a tank battle between the United States (as part of the Coalition of the Gulf War) and Iraq. Despite being a very large battle it is oft ...

History

In 2002 the division was made up of the 23rd, 45th and 47th Infantry Brigades.R.J. Lee
Key Components of the Iraqi Ground Forces, 2002
/ref> As the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq began, three brigade-sized elements of the division were guarding the

An Nasiriyah Nasiriyah ( ar, ٱلنَّاصِرِيَّة; BGN: ''An Nāşirīyah''; also spelled ''Nassiriya'' or ''Nasiriya'') is a city in Iraq. It is on the lower Euphrates, about south-southeast of Baghdad, near the ruins of the ancient city of Ur. ...

area as part of the 3rd Corps. After reformation circa 2006-2007, its headquarters was located in the former

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building in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

. Division units: * 42nd Infantry Brigade ('Tigers') - Adhamiyah (NE Baghdad) (former 2nd Brigade, 6th Division) * 43rd Infantry Brigade - Western Baghdad * 44th Infantry Brigade - Sadr City * 45th Infantry Brigade - Eastern Baghdad (planned to be operational in 2008) The 11th Division was put in place at the end of 2007 as part of the

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and the

Baghdad Security Plan Operation Imposing Law, also known as Operation Law and Order ( ar, عملية القانون والنظام, translit=amaliat al-qaanoon wa an-nazaam), Operation Fardh al-Qanoon ( ar, فرض القانون) or Baghdad Security Plan (BSP), was a ...

. It was formed from an experienced brigade, the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division (which became its 1st Brigade) and received the help of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Division (which is still operating in Baghdad au côté de la 11th Division), to which were added two newly formed brigades and one still forming at the time. It played a significant role in the

Siege of Sadr City The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by U.S. and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April ...

from April 2008. The division's

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is the east of

. Its soldier numbers are low, compared to a standard infantry division.

Notes

References

* DJ Elliott
Iraqi Order of Battle
Montrose Toast *{{cite book, first1=Gregory, last1=Fontenot, first2=E. J., last2=Degen, first3=David , last3=Tohn, title=On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7x8U4t-oJvcC&pg=PA222, year=2004, publisher=Naval Institute Press, isbn=978-1-59114-279-9, pages=222–232, access-date=16 June 2015, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918233344/https://books.google.com/books?id=7x8U4t-oJvcC&pg=PA222, archive-date=18 September 2015, url-status=live, df=dmy-all Divisions of Iraq