[1] Brigadier General Iyad Futaykh Khalifa al-Rawi 'completed the setting up' of the division.

[2] A later map in Malovany's book shows the division deployed between Tursaq and Zirbatiya, under 2nd Corps almost directly east of Baghdad, until circa September 1985.

After 2003, its headquarters was reported to be at Mahmadiyah, and its commander Staff Maj. Gen. Ali Jassam Mohammad.

"[5] Up until about mid-2014, the 17th Division was made up of a Headquarters and Service Company, the 23rd, 25th, and 55th Brigades, and the 17th Motor Transportation Regiment Ricklefs wrote in October 2017 that the "17th Division appears to have performed well in southern Ninewa.

"[6] As of December 2017 it included the 23rd, 25th, 55th, and 60th Brigades as part of the Mid-Euphrates Operational Command.