January 30, 2005 – Barzani is one of approximately 7,700 candidates in Iraq’s first free elections in over 50 years. June 2005 – Elected president of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq.

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 ...

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Barzani is named the head of the northwestern region as head of the KDP. A parallel government is established in the east under the PUK. 1994-1998 – Barzani leads a war against the PUK.

Barzani is named the head of the northwestern region as head of the KDP. A parallel government is established in the east under the PUK. 1994-1998 – Barzani leads a war against the PUK.

June 23, 2014 – In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Barzani gives his strongest-ever indication that his region, Iraqi Kurdistan, would seek formal independence from the ...

Saddam Hussein’s shadow often looms large over my meetings with Masoud Barzani. My career has allowed me to follow the thrilling and painful tales of both these officials. Both have an iron will and ...

Moreover, he said when the US pushed Talabani not to be re-elected president in 2010, “President Masoud Barzani did not give in to the pressure of the US president and regional pressures in 2010 and ...

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.