Abdul Salam Arif
The Qasim government and later Abdul Salam Arif once again had to send the experienced Iraqi officers in the north to face the Kurdish movement, but this time the war was more bloody and brutal, and the Kurds received arms and logistic support from both Iran and Israel which made the operations for the Iraqi army harder specially when they were also communist elements that supported the Kurdish movement represented by Toma Tommas and others.