Now is the time for Masoud Barzani to think about his legacy. He is 72 years old; his father died at 75. While Barzani may think he will follow his father into history as a great nationalist leader, ...

Masoud Barzani, Kurdistan Democratic Party leader and former president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, is 76 years old, the same age as his father was when he succumbed to cancer. Barzani has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani (right) in a meeting with Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Gewargis III, May 12, 2019. (Masoud Barzani website) The ...

ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Veteran Kurdish leader still shapes politics Barzani's KDP seeks big turnout in Nov 11 Iraq vote Teenage guerrilla fought Saddam's rule Barzani led failed Kurdish uprising Tensions rise with Baghdad ...