12th Battalion

1st Battalion, 1st Brigade

The 12th Battalion was redesignated the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division with the re-organization of the Iraqi Army.

On March 11, 2005, soldiers from what was then the 12th Battalion, 4th Brigade, conducted cordon-and-search operations in Ninevah, detaining 28 suspects, seizing 30 weapons and confiscating insurgent propaganda.

On January 18, 2005 Iraqi army soldiers from the 12th Battalion detained three suspected insurgents east of Mosul today following an exchange of small-arms fire.