Abdul Ghani Ajeel al-Asadi( ar, عبد الغني الاسدي), is an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

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and Force Commander of the

Iraqi Special Operations Forces The Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) ( ar, قوات العمليات الخاصة العراقية) are a special operations force of Iraq. The unit was created in 1950, but was disbanded and recruited from scratch by coalition forces after ...

. al-Asadi was born in 1951 in Mosul,

Wars in which he participated

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egy ...

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

Iraq War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق (Kurdish languages, Kurdish) , partof = the Iraq conflict (2003–present), I ...

Operation Ashura Liberation of Jurf Al Sakhar, codenamed Operation Ashura ( ar, عملية عاشوراء), was a two-day military operation by Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed PMU forces beginning on 24 October 2014, aimed at retaking the strategic cit ...

Siege of Amirli The siege of Amirli was a siege of the predominantly Shi'ite Turkmen town of Amirli in Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the War in Iraq. The town was besieged by ISIL forces from June 2014, lacking access to food, ...

Battle of Baiji (2014–15) Battle of Baiji may refer to: *Battle of Baiji (October–December 2014) Battle of Baiji may refer to: * Battle of Baiji (October–December 2014), in which ISIL captured the city of Baiji, Iraq *Battle of Baiji (2014–15) Battle of Baiji may ref ...

Second Battle of Tikrit The Second Battle of Tikrit was a battle in which Iraqi Security Forces recaptured the city of Tikrit (the provincial capital of the Saladin Governorate) from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Iraqi forces consisted of the Iraqi ...

Battle of Ramadi (2015–16) Battle of Ramadi may refer to one of the following: * Battle of Ramadi (1917) - Battle between British and Ottoman Empire forces in September 1917 during the First World War * Battle of Ramadi (2004), part of the Iraq War * Battle of Ramadi (200 ...

Battle of Fallujah (2016) The Third Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Breaking Terrorism ( ar, عملية كسر الإرهاب) by the Iraqi government, was a military operation against ISIL launched to capture the city of Fallujah and its suburbs, located about ...

Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) The Battle of Mosul ( ar, معركة الموصل, ''Ma'rakat al-Mawṣil''; ckb, شەڕی مووسڵ, ''Şeriy Mûsil'') was a major military campaign launched by the Iraqi Government forces with allied militias, the Kurdistan Regional Gove ...

References

External links

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An interview with Abdul Ghani al-Asadi
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Asadi, Abdul Ghani Military leaders of the Gulf War Living people Iraqi Shia Muslims Iraqi generals 1951 births People of the War in Iraq (2013–2017)