Colonel General Maher Abdul Rashid (Arabic: ماهر عبد الرشيد) (24 July 1942 – 29 June 2014) was an Iraqi military officer.

[1] Rashid rose to prominence during the Iran-Iraq War, and was regarded as one of Saddam's best generals,[2] serving as Chief-of-Staff of the Iraqis after being brought out of retirement, which he had been forced into in 1983.

[7] Saddam ordered him back to Baghdad due to both his public criticism and his failure to remove the Iranians from the al-Faw peninsula.

Rashid had promised to liberate the al-Fao peninsula in the Iran-Iraq war and had offered his daughter to Saddam's son Qusay to show his certainty.

[14] Maher's younger brother, Taher, who incidentally was also an accomplished and decorated officer in the Iraqi Army who reached the rank of Major General who was killed in action in 1988 during Tawakalna ala Allah IV due to a plane crash.