Wolf Brigade (Iraq)

Wolf Brigade
Wolf Brigade SSI
ActiveSep 2004 (current form)
Allegiance Iraq
BranchMinistry of Interior
TypeCommando
RoleCounterinsurgency
Size~2,000
Part ofIraqi Police
Garrison/HQNisour Square, Baghdad (HQ)
Colors  Red
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Brigadier Muhammad Muhsin Zaidan Qureshi (Abu al-Walid)

The Wolf Brigade (Arabic: لواء الذئب, romanizedliwaa' adh-dhi'ib), since 2006 officially Freedom Brigade,[1] is a unit of roughly 2,000 special commando police officially under the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior.

  1. ^ Perito, Robert (2011). The Iraq Federal Police U.S. Police Building under Fire. Washington: United States Institute of Peace. pp. 7–16.