Wolf Brigade | |
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Active | Sep 2004 (current form) |
Allegiance | Iraq |
Branch | Ministry of Interior |
Type | Commando |
Role | Counterinsurgency |
Size | ~2,000 |
Part of | Iraqi Police |
Garrison/HQ | Nisour Square, Baghdad (HQ) |
Colors | Red |
Engagements | |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Brigadier Muhammad Muhsin Zaidan Qureshi (Abu al-Walid) |
The Wolf Brigade (Arabic: لواء الذئب, romanized: liwaa' 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.