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Fadhil Barwari

Fadhil Barwari

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.