Al-Hassan expressed his gratitude for President Barzani’s continuous support, noting that it had been instrumental in the success and progress of his duties in Iraq.

Veteran Kurdish leader links the flag to decades of struggle, sacrifice, and the enduring quest for Kurdish rights and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) warned on Wednesday against conflating talks on forming the ...

Turkey demanded an explanation from Iraqi Kurdish officials after former leader Masoud Barzani arrived in a mainly Kurdish Turkish border region last weekend surrounded by heavily armed and uniformed ...

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BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its ...

Fluent in Kurmanji (Kurdish), Arabic, Farsi (Persian) and English. Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979. The KDP has an estimated 10,000 fighters and controls the northwestern ...

No serious injuries were reported from the strike, outside the city of Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq, and an American official said the consulate site was undamaged. By Farnaz Fassihi and Jane ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Masoud Barzani is a President for Kurdistan Region in Iraq with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 News Conference. The year with the ...

Massoud Barzani, former guerrilla leader, secures for Kurds virtually everything they asked for in Iraq's new constitution; former warlord says politics is more difficult than war; new constitution ...