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This battle occurred as a result of a widespread attack by the Iraqi Army, supported by tanks, artillery, warplanes, and Jash (pro-government militias), on the Sindi area. The Kurdistan Peshmerga forces, in order to protect the region from destruction and the ruin of villages, confronted the government forces on April 5, 1987. The battle ended with the victory of the Peshmerga forces and the defeat of the Iraqi forces.
The Baroshke battle was another activity of the Peshmerga force against the security apparatus of the Ba'ath regime. A Peshmerga force of the Duhok District Committee, commanded by Muhammad Murad, set up an ambush in the city of Duhok on one of the spring nights of 1983.
Jamil Jalal Qasim Suleiman was a Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution, a participant in the revolution's artillery course, and was martyred in 1974 in Kona Gurga near Erbil.
Martyr Fatah Ali Raza was a Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution. He was wounded once in his Peshmerga life and received the rank of commander of a guerrilla detachment of the Second Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1988, in the Balisan Valley, along with six comrades, after one hour of confrontation with the soldiers of the Ba'ath regime, they were disappeared.
The Shive Battle was a confrontation between the Peshmerga forces and the mercenary armed forces of the Ba'ath regime in May 1987 25, who attacked the village with the intention of destruction and demolition. The Peshmerga forces resisted them, and within two hours of fighting, the mercenary armed forces were defeated and fled, leaving four bodies on the battlefield.
The Beranshe Battle was a guerrilla activity of the Peshmerga forces on the main road of Beranshe Mountain near the village of Gre Bie. In that activity, a Peshmerga force of the Zakho area of the Kurdistan Democratic Party set up an ambush on the main road on November 15 1986 to strike the military vehicles of the forces of the occupying Ba'ath regime.
The attack on the Shkera Rabaya was an activity of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces against the mercenary (Jash) armed forces. On 19 January 1986, a Peshmerga force from the organizations affiliated with the Zakho District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party attacked the Shkera Rabaya in the Guli area of the Badinan region, where they were able to seize the Rabaya and inflict heavy human and material losses on the mercenary gunmen.
Siso Abdullah was born in the village of Stuni in 1950. In 1967, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution. In 1991, he returned to being a Peshmerga in the Barzan Army with the rank of Company Commander. He was martyred in 1997.
Abdullah Haji Abdi was born in the village of Stuni in 1949. In 1969, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution. In 1976, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution. He was martyred in the Khwakurk epic in 1988.
It is an activity of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces near the village of Bane Sur in the vicinity of Duhok in the Badinan region, when a Peshmerga force belonging to the Renjbaran organization set an ambush on the main Mangishke road. A vehicle of mercenary gunmen (Jash) fell into the ambush and was captured in a short time, all its passengers were killed, and all their weapons were seized.
The Battle of Dashtmeri was a Peshmerga activity against a military base of the Iraqi Army, in which a Peshmerga force belonging to the Zakho district committee on the night of 9 to 10 February 1987, attacked an outpost of the Iraqi Army near the village of Dashtmeri in the Ibrahim Khalil (Rizgari) sub-district of the Badinan region and were able to enter the military base in a short time.
The Iraqi government imposed war on Kurdistan in the spring of 1974, launching a widespread attack on the city of Zakho with the aim of breaking the Peshmerga siege on an army barracks in the city. After several weeks of continuous army attacks supported by tanks, artillery, warplanes, and mercenaries (Jash), they were able to break the siege on the barracks and enter the city of Zakho.
