Ayad Khalil Zaki


Ayad Khalil Zaki was an Iraqi military officer and commander of the Iraqi Army's IV Corps during the Gulf War. A combat engineering officer in the Iraqi Army, he served as the Iraqi field commander during the Anfal Campaign. By 1990, Zaki was the Commander of the IV Corps of the Iraqi Army and was the commander of the army during the Battle of Wadi al-Batin in the Gulf War.
In 1991, Zaki had been promoted to the position of Armed Forces Assistant Chief of Staff for Supplies and Logistics. In early December 1994, Zaki was one of the Generals called on by Wafiq al-Samarrai to revolt when the latter defected. However, Zaki ignored al-Samarrai's call and refused to defect to the Iraqi opposition and revolt against the government of Saddam Hussein.
Zaki served as Assistant Chief of Staff until being made the Governor of Muthanna Province.
Zaki left Iraq following the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of the Ba'athist government and fled to Jordan, where he spent his final years and died on the 22 August 2013.
Zaki was a Sunni Arab from Baghdad.

Command and Staff positions held