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Biography
Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri is an Iraqi Major General in the Iraqi security forces and the commander of the Nineveh Operations theater during the ongoing Iraqi Civil War. He is currently in command of Iraqi Army forces attempting to oust forces Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from the Nineveh Governorate during the ongoing Battle of Mosul (2016).
Life and career
Jubouri was born on 28 October 1956 in Qayyarah, south of Mosul. He received his primary education in Samarra and Kut. He joined the military college in 1976 and graduated from the rank as first lieutenant later in 1979.
Early military career
He participated in Iran-Iraq War and the 1991 Gulf War. He continued to served in the military until the US invasion.
Post 2003 invasion
Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri is a veteran of the Ba'athist Iraqi Army. Jubouri was at one point the mayor of the city of Tal Afar from June 2005 to 2008, and assisted coalition forces in counter-insurgency operations. After that, he moved to the United States in 2008 but returned to Iraq later in 2015 after living in Virginia for eight years. In 2009, he was a researcher at the National Defense University in Washington DC after graduating that same year.