17th Division (Iraq)

January 2019 17th Division17الفرقة المدرعة ال File:Flag of Iraq.svg 1983 Iraq Flag of the Iraqi Ground Forces.svg Iraqi Ground Forces Command Armoured Division Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) Battle of Tal Afar (2017) 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict The 17th Division is a division of the Iraqi Army, active before and after 2003. The 17th Armored Division was established after the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War, by the end of the third year of the war (September 1983).Malovany 2017 244 Brigadier General Iyad Futaykh Khalifa al-Rawi 'completed the setting up' of the division.Malovany 2017 267 It was in the field in the 2nd Corps sector in 1982–1984 south of Khanaqin on the Iran–Iraq border;Malovany 2017 245 2nd Corps was at that point headquartered at Baqubah. One of its early commanders, possibly its first commander, was Brigadier General Saber 'Abd al-'Aziz.Malovany 2017 267 A later map in Malovany's book shows the division deployed between Tursaq and Zirbatiya, under 2nd Corps almost directly east of Baghdad, until circa September 1985.Malovany 2017 288 It may have been in the 9th Corps during the Gulf War of 1991. Saddam Hussein's After 2003, its headquarters was reported to be at Mahmadiyah, and its commander Staff Maj. Gen. Ali Jassam Mohammad. "In August 2008, the newly selected commanding general of the newly formed 17th IA division was a well-regarded, competent brigade commander—a good choice."Dale 2009 101 Up until about mid-2014, the 17th Division was made up of a Headquarters and Service Company, the 23rd, 25th, and 55th Brigades, and the 17th Motor Transportation Regiment Ricklefs wrote in October 2017 that the "17th Division appears to have performed well in southern Ninewa."Ricklefs 2017 As of December 2017 it included the 23rd, 25th, 55th, and 60th Brigades as part of the Mid-Euphrates Operational Command.Dury-Agri Kassim Martin 2017 20 Notes 30em References Dale Catherine Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results, and Issues for Congress https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/RL34387.pdf CRS Report for Congress RL34387 April 2, 2009 101 Jessa Rose Dury-Agri Omer Kassim Patrick Martin 2017-11-01 Iraqi Security Forces and Popular Mobilization Forces: Order of Battle https://www.understandingwar.org/report/iraqi-security-forces-and-popular-mobilization-forces-orders-battle-0 2023-01-04 Institute for the Study of War en Washington DC. Malovany Pesach Wars of Modern Babylon University Press of Kentucky June 2017 978-0813169439 Ricklefs Norman https://www.iraqincontext.com/single-post/2017/10/10/The-Iraqi-Military-After-Mosul-A-time-for-consolidation The Iraqi Military After Mosul: A time for consolidation 10 October 2017 22 February 2019 24 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230924045131/https://www.iraqincontext.com/single-post/2017/10/10/the-iraqi-military-after-mosul-a-time-for-consolidation dead Further reading Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948–91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002 External links DJ Elliott, Iraqi Army Forces in the Center https://web.archive.org/web/20221205072022/https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/files/ISF_OOB_2011-03/Page_4_-_Central.pdf 2022-12-05 , "Montrose Toast," February 2011 Category:Divisions of Iraq Category:Military units and formations established in the 1980s