War in Iraq (2013–2017) Ayoub Falih Hasan Al-Rubayie (Arabic: أيوب فالح حسن الربيعي; born 1978), known by his nom de guerre Abu Azrael, is an Iraqi commander in the Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shi'a militia group of the Popular Mobilization Forces that fought ISIS (ISIL) figthers in Iraq.

Abu Azrael was a member of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, which fought against the U.S.-led Coalition forces during the Iraqi insurgency.

[4] According to an Iranian source,[5] reports from March 2015 claimed that Azrael is a father of five, and lives an ordinary life when not on the battlefield.

Following incidents where he was filmed desecrating the corpses of ISIS militants,[7] Azrael stated that he had been told by a senior imam in Najaf that he should pray for penance and never do such a thing again.

By the spring of 2015, he had made front-page appearances on international news websites in England, France and the United States.