Salah Mohammed Sharif, also known as Salah Haji Sharif, was born in 1955 in the village of Wala Samt, which belongs to the district of Sayed Sadiq. He was a villager and worked in agriculture. He was deported in 1977 by the Baathist regime to the Shanir forced complex. He was married to Maryam Fattah, and he is the father of two sons and two daughters (Ako, Shaho, Halima, and Chenor).

He joined the Peshmerga in 1980 at the headquarters of the Surin forces, which belonged to the local committee of the fourth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Mulla Omar Bani Banuk was the commander of the forces at that time.

He participated in the battle of Razla and Barzan, in the battle of Sarbalkha in 1982, in the battle of Ahmad Awa in 1987, and in guerrilla warfare activities in the Sharazur plain and the foothills of Mount Surin.

In 1988, Salah Mohammed and a group of his Peshmerga comrades were ambushed by mercenaries (Jahush) of the Baathist regime on the Awi Rashin Bridge in the Sharazur Plain. After confrontations and clashes between the two sides, Salah Mohammed and two of his Peshmerga comrades (Tawfiq Rahim and Jalal Penjuini) were martyred.

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Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party