Colonel General Adnan Khairallah (Arabic: عدنان خير الله طلفاح, romanized: ʿAdnān Khayr Allāḥ; 1940 – 4 May 1989) was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother in-law and cousin.

He also served as the Defence Minister of Iraq from 1979 until his death a decade later, being appointed days after Saddam Hussein succeeded to the Presidency.

[3] Since he was fourteen years old, he used to carry a camera with him and he owned an archive of photos of Saddam Hussein and the family and a large collection of photos of the areas in which he served, which tell the story of the development of Iraqi cities and districts Adnan joined the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party in 1956.

[4] Adnan served as Iraqi Minister of Defence throughout the Iran–Iraq War, and was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, second only to Saddam Hussein.

Adnan had been travelling by helicopter from Baghdad to Kurdistan region to inspect army positions when he had his flight diverted to meet several members of the Presidential family in the mountain resort of Sarsang, near Dohuk.

[2] Announcing Adnan's death, Saddam referred to him as one of the distinguished war heroes and a sparkling star in Iraq's sky.

Although a relative of Saddam's, Adnan remained a popular figure after the Iraq War and a square named in his honour exists to this day in the al-Karkh area of Baghdad where his statue continued to stand following the fall of Baghdad in 2003, unlike those of other Saddam-era figures which were all immediately removed after the invasion.