Khalid Shili was born in 1943 in the village of Shili, which is affiliated with the Amadiya district. In 1962, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution. After the defeat of the September Revolution in 1975, he was transferred to the Zewe camp in East Kurdistan. He was the person responsible for supervising the refugees of the Zewe camp. Later, he was transferred to the Ahvaz province and the city of Shushtar. In 1991, during the popular uprising of Kurdistan, with President Masoud Barzani he came to the town of Diana and participated in the uprising and popular revolt of South Kurdistan. Later, he settled in the province of Duhok. In 1998, he became a Member of the September Institution, and in 2004, he became the person responsible for the September Institution in Akre, and in 2013, he was retired.
In 1962, he was a soldier in the Iraqi army; for a time, he joined the September Revolution and became a Peshmerga in Lower Barwari with Commander Mahmud Agha of Chemanke. In the same year, and after the expulsion of the Iraqi army and the 'Jash' (collaborators) in the Behdinan region, Barzani organized those Behdinan forces into three forces and entrusted the responsibility of the region to Asad Khoshewi. He made Isa Siwar, Ali Khalil, and Heso Mirkhani the Commanders of those three forces. Khalid Shili also became a platoon leader in the Akre and Sheikhan force, which Heso Mirkhani was the Commander of. In 1973, he became a captain in the First Battalion of the Sheikhan Force, where Ismail Musa was the Battalion Commander. In 1974, he became the Commander of the National Defense Force Battalion east of the city of Mosul.
In 1979, by the order of Idris Barzani, he returned to the Zewe camp. In the same year, and after the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he returned to Branch One in Komate, located on the border of South and North Kurdistan, with Dr. Jerjis Hassan, who was known as (Dr. Jerjis Khinisi), and 25 other Peshmerga. In 1980, he became a Member of the Sheikhan District Committee and the person responsible for the Martyr Fazil Shili organization in the Sheikhan district, and as mobile detachments, they inflicted damage on the enemies and carried out several guerrilla operations. In 1981, he returned to Zewe, and in 1987, with President Masoud Barzani and a part of the members of the political bureau, he came to Branch One in the Nerwe and Dutaze district. In 1988, he returned to Zewe to participate in the epic of Khwakurk; in the same year, he went to the Khwakurk district and participated in the battles of Sere Korawe and Qebri Zahir, and after the end of this battle, he returned to the Zewe camp in East Kurdistan.
In 1991, at the beginning of the uprising and popular revolt of Kurdistan, with President Masoud Barzani he came to the town of Diana, then they sent him to the Rekan region, and there he became the Commander of a force of 50 people and went to Zakho. In 1992, he became the Commander of the joint battalion between the KDP and the PUK in Sheikhan; in September of the same year, he was the military official in the Fifth Army of Sheikhan. In 1998, he became a Member of the September Institution.
Khalid Shili participated in several battles during his Peshmerga life and was wounded in 1981 in the battle of Konelacan and Derbend in Urmia in East Kurdistan. His brother Hazim was martyred in the battle of Khwakurk (July 19 - September 5, 1988). In 2014, at the beginning of the ISIS war (August 2, 2014 - October 17, 2016), his brother Jamil was martyred.
On August 16, 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of the services he provided to the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the path of Barzani, by President Masoud Barzani he received the Barzani medal. In 2004, he became the person responsible for the September Institution in Akre and in 2013, he was retired.
1. Archive of the Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia.