Iraqi Armed Forces

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The Iraqi Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Iraq. They consist of the Ground Forces, the Air Force, the Navy and the Air Defence Command. The armed forces are administered by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Effective control of the armed forces rests with the prime minister of Iraq. Along with the primary service branches, there exists two non-MoD agencies that are part of the armed forces and report directly to the prime minister; namely, the Counter Terrorism Service and the Popular Mobilization Forces. The armed forces of Iraq were initially formed in the early 1920s. Six military coup d'états were mounted by the army between 1936 and 1941. They first saw combat in the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941. They fought against Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, in the 1967 Six-Day War, and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Two wars against the Kurds were fought during 1961-1970 and 1974–1975. A much larger conflict was the Iran–Iraq War, initiated by the Iraqis in 1980, which continued...

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