1st Hammurabi Armoured Division

Hammurabi Armoured
Republican Guard Division
Hammurabi Division insignia
ActiveMay 1986 – 2003
Country Iraq
Allegiance Ba'athist Iraq
Branch Iraqi Republican Guard
TypeArmoured Division
RoleShock troops
Size≈10,000 (1991)
Engagements
Commanders
Last CommanderNajim Abdallah Zahwen Al Ujayli[1]
Notable
commanders
Ra'ad al-Hamdani

The 'Hammurabi' Armored Division (Arabic: فرقة حمورابي المدرعة) was an elite formation of the Iraqi Republican Guard. It was named after Hammurabi; a Babylonian King known for the set of laws called Hammurabi's Code, which constitute one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history.

The division was decisively defeated by the United States Armed Forces in 1991, when it was forced out of Kuwait after suffering heavy casualties, and again in 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq. The latter resulted in the total collapse of the division as its senior officers abandoned their posts, and it was never reformed as the Republican Guard itself was disbanded following the fall of Saddam Hussein's government.

  1. ^ "Multinational Coalition Forces Iraq (MCFI)" (PDF). Thetorturedatabase.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.