Bakr Sidqi al-Askari was an Iraqi general of Kurdish origin, born in 1890 and assassinated on 11 August 1937, in Mosul.
General Bakr Sadqi in uniform
The Lethbridge Herald, 18 August 1933, reporting on the Simele massacre.
Ja'far Pasha al-Askari was an Iraqi politician who served twice as Prime Minister of Iraq in 1923–1924 and again in 1926–1927.
Ja'far al-Askari
Autochrome of Al-Askari in Jordan by Paul Castelneau, 2 March 1918