Ahmed Ibrahim Mustafa, known as Ahmed Khalani, was born in 1950 in the village of Khalani, Haji Omaran sub-district, Choman district, Erbil province. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in the country of Iran and with Karim Sinjari, Shakib Akrayi and Azad Barwari went to Naghadeh, but he did not stay there long and returned to the village of Khalan. In 1976, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and settled in the village of Khalan. At the end of 1976, he became a refugee in the country of Iran again. In 1991, after the popular uprising of Kurdistan, he returned to Southern Kurdistan with his family and settled in the city of Soran.
In 1967, he established a strong relationship with the Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga. He was made a guard for the Voice of Kurdistan radio station, which Salih Yusifi was responsible for. In 1970, he went with Salih Yusifi to the Fifth Branch in Baghdad. After Hashim Akrayi became the head of the Fifth Branch of the Party in Baghdad, Ahmed Ibrahim Khalani, along with Yadullah Fayli and Muhammad Amin Beg, Nariman Habib, and other Peshmerga, returned to Nawprdan in the Balakayati region, and from there he was transferred to the guard section of the Khalan prison, where Khalid Azhgay was responsible.
In 1972, he was transferred from the Khalan prison to the Political Bureau guard section, where Muhammad Amin Rashka was responsible. In 1976, after his return from the country of Iran, he was arrested by the Ba'ath regime and imprisoned for three months in the prisons of Rawandiz, Erbil, and Baghdad, after which he was released and returned to his village again.
In 1976, after the outbreak of the Gulan Revolution, Ahmed Khalani joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution and became a Peshmerga in Kotraru in the Qaladize region under Ali Hassan Agha Sherwati. Later, he returned to the Balakayati region and was made a member of the Balak district committee. In 1979, he participated in the 9th Congress of the Party, and after the congress, he was made an administrator of the Balak district committee, a position he held until 1991.
In 1991, before the start of the uprising of the people of Kurdistan, he returned as a Peshmerga to participate in the uprising and participated in the Diana uprising. After the uprising, he was re-elected as an administrator of the Balak district committee. Later, during the formation of the Kurdistan Army, he received a command rank and is currently a member of the command of the 43rd Halgurd Command Unit.
Ahmed Khalani participated in several battles, such as the Battle of Warti and Mount Drabi. In 1980, he was wounded in a battle against the Iraqi Army in Haji Omaran. Three brothers and a son named Osman Ibrahim on April 13, 1984, Rahim Ibrahim on May 24, 1988, Mawlud Ibrahim in July 1994, and Tahir Ahmed on January 1, 1995, were martyred. Also, a nephew named Qadir Muhammad Mustafa was executed by firing squad in Baghdad on December 28, 1988, and another nephew named Muhammad Ali Ibrahim was martyred during the liberation of the city of Erbil in 1991. On May 28, 2013, for the services he provided to the Kurd, Kurdistan, and the Barzani path, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Barzani on August 16, 1996.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.