Messerschmitt Bf.110D - Iraqi users *Fliegerführer Irak*

After the experience gained in the invasion of Norway, Messerschmitt improved its design by making a long range version of the Bf.110C which became known as the Bf.110D featuring several different external fuel tanks with many sub-variants depending on the amount of external fuel tanks it could carry.
Thanks to its long range capabilities, it was in April 1941 when, after the Rashid Ali Rebellion, the Fliegerführer Irak was created with 12 Bf.110D from the 4./ZG.76 forming the Sonderkommando Junck and were sent to Iraq to support the Iraqi nationalist cause.
The German planes arrived in Iraq, in the first week of May 1941 and, although they wore Iraqi colours, they were entirely manned and handed by Germans. The campaign in Iraq lasted only ten intense days. It was during that short period of time when the future night fighter ace, Martin Drewes claimed two British Gloster Gladiators shot down with RAF's raids badly damaging two German Bf.110Ds. However, as the rebellion was being crushed by Commonwealth forces, all Luftwaffe personnel and machines were evacuated and, by 26th of May there wasn't any trace of serviceable German aircraft. One Bf.110D was captured by British forces and was test flown and nicknamed "Belle of Berlin". It was sent to Cairo, in Egypt and was assigned to a program to train pilots in enemy equipment in South Africa. But, when it was on its way from Cairo to South Africa, it crashed in The Sudan.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_110_operational_history#North_Africa,_the_Mediterranean_and_Middle_East
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fliegerführer_Irak
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Iraqi_coup_d%27état
4. https://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/76846
5. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters