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Mustafa Barzani, following his return to Iraq in 1958, would engage in numerous insurgencies against Baghdad, often seeking and gaining support from the KGB, CIA, Mossad, MI6 and SAVAK, as well as support from Syria and Jordan depending on which country was opposed to the government in Baghdad at the time, taking advantage of the complexities ...
The 1943–1945 Barzani revolt was a Kurdish nationalistic insurrection in the Kingdom of Iraq, during World War II. The revolt was led by Mustafa Barzani and was later joined by his older brother Ahmed Barzani, the leader of the previous Kurdish revolt in Iraq. The revolt, initiating in 1943, was eventually put down by the Iraqi assault in ...
Kurds led by Mustafa Barzani were engaged in heavy fighting against successive Iraqi regimes from 1960 to 1975. The First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) led to a stalemate and in March 1970 Iraq announced a peace plan providing for Kurdish autonomy. The plan was to be implemented in four years. [12]
Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 (or the Iraqi–Kurdish peace talks or the 1970 Peace Accord) was an agreement, which the Iraqi government and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Mustafa Barzani reached on March 11, 1970 [1] in the aftermath of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War.
Iraqi Army officers stationed in northern Iraq, 1966; Kurdish rebel leaders at an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) field hospital in northern Iraq, c. 1960s; Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein meeting Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani prior to signing the Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement and ending hostilities, 1970
First Iraqi–Kurdish War [18] or Barzani Rebellion was a major event of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, lasting from 1961 to 1970. The struggle was led by Mustafa Barzani in an attempt to establish an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Throughout the 1960s the uprising escalated into a long war, which failed to resolve despite internal ...
Following this, Mustafa Barzani and his forces from Iraqi Kurdistan (the Peshmerga), which had formed the backbone of the Republic's forces, went on a campaign to withdraw back into Iraq. During this, the Iranian army made multiple attempts to intercept the Peshmerga, failing to engage the rebels until March 1947, when Barzani decided to engage ...
Ahmed Barzani revolt refers to the first of the major Barzani revolts and the third Kurdish nationalistic insurrection in modern Iraq. The revolt began in 1931, after Ahmed Barzani , one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in southern Kurdistan , succeeded in unifying a number of other Kurdish tribes. [ 4 ]