Flyer Command Iraq was a unit of the German Air Force dispatched to Iraq in May 1941 as part of a German mission to support the regime of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani during the Anglo-Iraqi War. The mission
While the German markings were over-painted with Iraqi symbols, many Messerschmitt Bf 110s in Iraq still featured "shark teeth" markings of 4/ZG 76 on the nose.
The Golden Square, also known as the Four Colonels, was a cabal of pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi army officers of the Iraqi armed forces who played a part in Iraqi politics throughout the 1930s and early 1
Pro-Japanese Iraqi Prime Minister Taha al-Hashimi, who served in Iraq's short-lived pro-Axis government in 1941