Mahdi Al-Gharrawi

Mahdi Al-Gharrawi
Gharrawi in 2010
Native name
مهدي صبيح آل الغراوي
Allegiance Iraq
Service / branch Iraqi Federal Police
 Iraqi Ground Forces
RankLieutenant General
CommandsNinewa Province Command
3rd Division
Battles / wars

Lt. General Mahdi Sabeh Al-Gharrawi is an Iraqi police officer, the former Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police in Nineveh Province, and Lieutenant General of Iraqi Army.

Gharawi, along with several other military leaders, was dismissed from his position by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 17 June 2014 for failing in his "professional and military duty". His dismissal came a week after the fall of much of Northern Iraq to anti-government forces in the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive.[1] He was sentenced to death by firing squad by a military tribunal.[2]

After serving two years in prison, Gharawi was released on 1 August 2020.[3]

  1. ^ "Iraqi PM Maliki fires senior security commanders". Al Arabiya. 17 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Iraqi general responsible for losing Mosul has been sentenced to death". 4 November 2017. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  3. ^ "الإفراج عن الغراوي بعد قضاء محكوميته في قضية سقوط الموصل" [Gharawi released after serving his sentence in Mosul case] (in Arabic). 1 August 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2023.