Chief of the General Staff (Iraq)
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| رئاسة اركان الجيش | |
 Coat of arms of the General Staff of the Iraqi Armed Forces | |
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| Ministry of Defense | |
| Member of | Armed Forces of Iraq |
| Reports to | Ministry of Defense |
| Seat | Green Zone, Baghdad |
| Appointer | Prime Minister of Iraq |
| Formation | 6 Jan 1921 |
| First holder | Saleh Saeb |
| Website | mod.mil.iq |
The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iraq (Arabic: رئاسة اركان الجيش العراقي, romanized: riasat arkan aljaysh aleiraqiu; is the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iraq. He is appointed by the Prime Minister of Iraq, who is the commander-in-chief. The position dates to the period of the Independence of Iraq.[1] Up until 2003, the Chief of Staff was the second most senior officer in the Armed Forces behind the Minister of Defence.
Since 8 June 2020, the current chief of the General Staff is General Abdel Emir Yarallah.[2]
List of chiefs of the General Staff
[edit]| No. | Portrait | Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces | Took office | Left office |
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| 1 | Colonel General Saleh Saeb (1898–1993) | 1944 | 1951 | |
| 2 | Colonel General Nur Ad-Din Mahmud (1899–1981) | 1951 | 1953 | |
| 3 | Major General Hussain Maki Khammas (-–-) | 1953 | 1954 | |
| 4 | Lieutenant General Rafiq Arif (1908–1992) | 1954 | 1958 |
| No. | Portrait | Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces | Took office | Left office |
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| 1 | Major General Ahmed Saleh Al-Abdi (1912–1968) | 1958 | 1963 | |
| 2 | Lieutenant General Tahir Yahya (1916–1986) | 1963 | 1963 | |
| 3 | Lieutenant General Abdul Rahman Arif (1916–2007) | 1963 | 1966 | |
| 4 | Major General Hamudi Mahdi (1916–2007) | 1966 | 1967 | |
| 5 | Major General Ibrahim Faisal Al-Ansari (1920–2010) | 1967 | 1968 | |
| 6 | Lieutenant General Hammad Shihab (1922–1973) | 1968 | 1970 | |
| 7 | Lieutenant General Abdul Jabbar Shanshal (1920–2014) | 1970 | 1984 | |
| 8 | Lieutenant General Abdul Jawad Dhanuun (1936–2020) | 1984 | 1986 | |
| 9 | Lieutenant General Saad Eddin Aziz Mustafa (born 1938) | 1986 | 1987 | |
| 10 | Lieutenant General Nizar Al-Khazraji (born 1938) | 1987 | 1990 | |
| 11 | Colonel General Hussein Rashid (born 1940) | 1990 | 1991 | |
| 12 | Colonel General Iyad Futayyih (1942–2018) | 1991 | 1995 | |
| 13 | Colonel General Sultan Hashim (1945–2020) | 1995 | 1995 | |
| 14 | Colonel General Abdul Wahid Shannan (born 1944) | 1995 | 1999 | |
| 15 | Lieutenant General Ibrahim Abdul Sattar (1950–2010) | 1999 | 2003 |
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| No. | Portrait | Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces | Took office | Left office |
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| 1 | General Babaker Zebari (born 1947) | August 8 2003 | 29 June 2015 | |
| 2 | General Othman al-Ghanmi (born 1958) | 29 June 2015 | 7 June 2020 | |
| 3 | General Abdel Emir Yarallah (born 1958) | 7 June 2020 | Present |
References
[edit]- ^ "في ذكرى تأسيسه.. تعرف على أبرز محطات الجيش العراقي". كركوك ناو. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "الكاظمي يعين مجموعة جديدة من المسؤولين في مناصب عليا". الشرق الأوسط (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-01-07.
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