Ismail Ahmed Manaf Habib was born in 1943 in the village of Sezeblagh in the Qoratu sub-district of the Khanaqin district of Diyala Governorate. He was married. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the country of Iran. He resided in the camps of Azel and Zahaw, and was later deported by SAVAK to the city of Abadan. In 1991, he returned to Southern Kurdistan.

In 1958, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1962, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the 6th Bamo Battalion of the Rizgari Force. In 1967, he was made a squad leader and military official. From the Year 1962 to 1975, he participated in several battles against the Iraqi Army, including the battle of Haji Omaran, the battles of Zozk Mountain and Khanaqin, and the battle of Bamo.

In 1977, he returned to the Rawansar sub-district and joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution again. In 1980, he received the administrative rank of the Khanaqin District Committee and was the military official of the aforementioned committee. He participated in several partisan detachments. In 1988, he participated in the battle of Khwakurk. 

In 1991, as an administrator and official of the military department of the Kalar District Committee, he participated in the popular uprising of Southern Kurdistan. In 1992, after the formation of the Joint Peshmerga Forces, he was made commander of the 2nd Kalar Brigade with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and continued in that task until 1994.

In 1994, he was made a member of the Nawrol axis in Halabja the Martyr, and later received the task of intelligence officer of the 45th Garmian Brigade. In 1996, in the Garmian Army, he was made the administrative official of the army. In 2002, he became a member of the Hamrin Army and continued in that task until 2005. 

In 2005, he was transferred to the Garmian Command and, with the rank of Colonel, was made the operations official of the Garmian Command, continuing in that task until 2010. In the same year, he suffered a stroke, and therefore, in 2012, he was retired. 

On October 13, 1999, at the 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to the services he had provided, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani.

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.