The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons within days, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK Party ...

Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met with the Kurdistan Region’s top officials in Erbil on Tuesday to discuss the ...

Tribal leader Masoud Barzani, ... Barzani also began allowing Turkey’s intelligence services to have free rein inside the territory he controlled. In July 2019, ...

Masoud Barzani (Kurdish: مسعودبارزانی, Mesûd Barzanî) (born August 16, 1946) is the current President of the Iraqi Kurdistan region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani wanted to keep Maliki weak and, prior to the group’s surprise capture of Mosul, quietly provided weaponry to the Islamic State and other Sunni ...

Massoud Barzani Fast Facts. By CNN Newsource. Published July 27, 2023 11:06 AM . CNN ... Turkey and Iran. Barzani was born on the same day that the KDP was founded in 1946. ...

Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani thanked Turkey for its role in “freeing” Kobani from ISIL fighters on Monday. According to a statement released on the presidency’s ...

Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani's announcement he plans to step down was greeted with jubilation in Turkey’s pro-government media. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Barzani, his ...

This dynamic was a major reason why, in 1975, Jalal Talabani, the deputy to Masoud’s father, Mulla Mustafa Barzani, spun off to form the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK.

Massoud Barzani Fast Facts. By CNN Newssource. Published July 26, 2024 11:58 AM ... Turkey and Iran. Barzani was born on the same day that the KDP was founded in 1946. ...

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 ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Personal Birth date: August 16, 1946 Birth place: Mahabad ...