Hamid Khwasti Ismail was born in Year 1939 in the village of Bazngir in the Sindian area in the Zakho district of Duhok Governorate. He was married. After the setback of Aylul Revolution, he took refuge in Iran in Year 1975, and settled in the city of Shno in East Kurdistan, then he was transferred to Saraw and Nilufer in Kermanshah, then returned to Naghadeh. Then he moved with his family to the Zeweh complex, and from Zeweh to the Rabat complex and from there to the Jahrom complex in Fars Province (Shiraz) in southern Iran, and from there to Yazd Province in central Iran.
He joined in Year 1961 the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and became one of the Peshmerga members under his cousin Salman Sindi, and remained in the force until Year 1965. After the formation of the Ali Halo Battalion, he was promoted to platoon commander, and in Year 1967 he went to the Barwari Bala area and was appointed within the force of Asaad Khoshawi as deputy to Hamid Hafizullah Omar, who was the commander of the strike forces in the Duhok, Sheikhan, and Akre areas.
After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he served in the Third Battalion guarding the Bamarni airport for four years. In Year 1974, he was deputy commander of the strike force, participated in the battles of Balk, Gurez, and Hawdian, joined in Year 1976 the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution, and headed from the border of North Kurdistan to the village of Hedish in the Uludere district, and there he and his relatives, numbering about 25 people, formed a mobile detachment and began the struggle and stayed in the village of Komata, which was the temporary Headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In Year 1979, he participated in the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and after the conclusion of the Congress, he returned to his place and was appointed as a Military responsible for the Zakho Regional Committee. He was transferred in Year 1984 to the Amidi Regional Committee and became a Member of the Regional Committee and a Military responsible. In Year 1986, he became a Member of the First Branch and a Military responsible for the branch. In Year 1988, after the Anfal attacks and the infamous chemical attacks on the Badinan region, Hamid Khwasti crossed into North Kurdistan and remained there until Year 1991.
After the uprising of South Kurdistan in Year 1991, he was appointed as a Member of the First Branch in Duhok and at the same time became deputy to Babakir Zebari, commander of the Kurdistan Army in Zawita. In Year 2000, he founded with Mustafa Nerwayi the Aylul Institution in Duhok. In Year 2003, the Aylul Institution was opened in Zakho and he was appointed as head of the Institution.
Hamid Khwasti participated in dozens of battles in the Aylul and Gulan revolutions. In Year 1961, he participated in disarming the Zakho police station, in Year 1972 in the battle of the Akre plain, in Year 1974 in the battle of the Duhok valley, in Year 1985 in the battle of Amidi, on May 26, Year 1987 he participated in disarming the Bamarni airport police station, and in Year 1987 in the epic of Kani Masi and many other battles.
On August 16, 1996, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was awarded the Barzani medal by President Masoud Barzani for his services provided to the Kurds and Kurdistan and the Barzani path. He retired with the rank of Brigadier General in Year 2013.
Source:1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party