The Iraqi army’s 9th Armored Division was slow to take the Christian town of Qaraqosh that lies south of the Golden Division’s front line base at Bartella. In the northwest, Peshmerga forces ...

November 26, 2005: The Iraqi 9th Mechanized division received an equipment upgrade over the ... A battalion of infantry in the brigade uses Russian BMP armored vehicles. Another brigade uses older ...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- No challenges could stop the "Conquerors" of 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment ... is to advise and assist the 9th Iraqi Army Division (9th IA). The task force is responsible ...

The 9th Armored Division, based near Baghdad ... that Saddam once fielded when Iraq was a major Middle East power. But the new army isn't designed to conduct the ill-fated military adventures ...

The standard equipment of an Iraqi armored battalion is 35 tanks and nine BMP1s. For the interim, additional BMP1s are being employed in the place of tanks in 9th Division, but that will change as ...

The task to liberate Qaraqosh fell to the Iraqi army’s 9th Armored Division, which is helped by a small Christian militia known as the Nineveh Protection Units. Equipped with U.S.-supplied ...

An American M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank and a crew of Soldiers in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, and Iraqi Army crewmen of a T-72 tank perform checks in preparation for a live ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq -- Leaders from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division ... commander of the 9th Iraqi Army Division. "The government of Iraq recognized the ...

In a taped statement on al-Iraqiya TV, Rasool said the Iraqi Army’s 9th Armored Division had reached the banks of the Tigris River in the city, with the 16th Infantry Division fast approaching.

About 400 to 500 Fort Bliss soldiers, including the post’s command staff, are deploying to Iraq this week for a critical mission. The soldiers from the 1st Armored Division’s Headquarters and ...

It’s a race against time: this will be an improvised base for troops from Iraq’s 9th Armored Division amid final preparations for the assault to end ISIS’ control of Iraq’s second largest ...