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The National Defense Battalions (Arabic: كتائب الدفاع الوطني‎ "Jahafel al-Difa' al-Watani") were Iraqi Kurdish paramilitary units. Initially emerging from pro-government Kurdish militia raised by the regime of Abd al-Karim Qasim used against Kurdish insurgents in the 1960s, the Battalions were used quite prominent during the Iran-Iraq War, particularly during the Anfal Campaign.

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  • The National Defense Battalions (Arabic: كتائب الدفاع الوطني‎ "Jahafel al-Difa' al-Watani") were Iraqi Kurdish paramilitary units. Initially emerging from pro-government Kurdish militia raised by the regime of Abd al-Karim Qasim used against Kurdish insurgents in the 1960s, the Battalions were used quite prominent during the Iran-Iraq War, particularly during the Anfal Campaign.
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  • National Defense Battalions
  • كتائب الدفاع الوطني
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  • 100,000 (1991)
  • 1,000 (2002)
  • 250,000 (1987)
  • 412,636 (1989)
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  • Light Infantry
  • Reserve Army
  • Infantry Scouts
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