Nasser Al-Ghannam

Nasser Al-Ghannam
Personal details
Born	Nasser bin Ahmed bin Ghannam 1960 (age 63–64) Hit, Iraq
Occupation	Dean of Iraqi military Academy, veteran Iraqi military officer with the rank of General of Special Forces.

Nasser al-Ghannam (Arabic: ناصر الغنام) is an Iraqi Army officer with the rank of Special Forces General. He is the current Dean of the Iraqi Military Academy.

Early life

Nasser bin Ahmed bin Ghannam was born in the city of Hit in 1960, to Iraqi Arab parents. He belongs to the family of the well-known Al-Ghannam branch of Al-Shaya tribe, which is a branch of the larger Banu Uqayl tribe.

Military service

He graduated from the 1st Iraqi Military Academy. After graduation he completed special forces and underwater training. He worked in special forces regiments and then in the military college. He completed the leadership and the Staff College course and graduated with the rank of Captain.

He became a corner officer in Armored Brigade 41, served as a Republican guard and a Lieutenant in the 3rd Brigade. He served as Special Forces Republican Guard and Assistant Regiment Commander in the 26th Brigade of the Republican Guards and then an Order of the Republican Guards.

He took part in supervising plans to liberate Iraq from Al Qaeda and then became commander of the Army 2nd division in Mosul for two years. He served as commander of the 17th division south of Baghdad for two years.

He completed two degrees, one in military science and another in international business administration.

On 18 October 2014 he started working in the Ministry of Defense and on 7 April 2015 he was assigned to the post of commander of al-Jazira and al-Badiyah Operations (Upper Mesopotamia and Anbar Desert) to liberate Anbar province. In 2020 he was assigned to the post of commander of Basra Operations and in 2021 he became the Dean of Iraqi Military Academy.