In August 1983, Saddam decided to punish Kurdish clan leader Masoud Barzani for aligning his rebel Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) forces with the Iranians in the Iran Iraq war. According to one ...

Barham will have a chance to show a new generation that a better life and subservience to the Barzani clan are mutually exclusive. For too long, Iraqi Kurds have faced a choice: despair or flight.

Even early in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, State Department officials conceded internally that corruption in Erbil “centers more on the Barzani clan,” according to diplomatic cables published ...

Barzani had never before made a statement on the subject but ... Here are just a few examples: In 1843 and 1846 Kurdish clan leaders Bedr Khan Beg and Nurullah murdered tens of thousands Assyrians in ...

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of late Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, a bitter rival of the powerful Barzani clan, had called for a boycott of the vote, along with the New Generation ...

All the missing men and boys were members of one powerful Kurdish clan, the Barzanis. The search for the missing Barzanis was authorized by Masoud Barzani, clan leader and now president for the ...

namely the Barzani clan, over others. For an issue at the very heart of Kurdish nationalism for a century, only seventy-two per cent of Kurds voted. And there were tens of thousands of spoiled ...

Kurdistan Democratic Party, currently the dominant faction in Iraqi Kurdistan, it is a fiefdom of the Barzani clan, and led by the region’s president, Masoud Barzani. He’s the son of a ...

the almost shockingly extravagant house last sold in September 2018 for $27 million to the Barzani family, a wealthy clan that has been the de facto ruler of Iraq’s Kurdistan region for generations.

Barzani encouraged broader participation from other Syrian Kurdish parties, including the Kurdish National Council in Syria, to strengthen Kurdish representation beyond the SDF alone. Click here ...

“I am in love with Barzani’s daughter,” read a satirical and irreverent Web post by Mr. Osman in December, which appeared to violate a taboo in the region’s deeply conservative and clan ...

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of late Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, bitter rival of the powerful Barzani clan, had called for a boycott of the vote. The younger Barzani is the second ...