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The Susi camp battle took place in May 1974, after the Iraqi government declared war on the Kurdish revolution. The Peshmerga Forces besieged this camp as a reaction. The Iraqi Army launched an attack that lasted several days in order to break the siege imposed by the Peshmerga and to rescue their soldiers from Sulaymaniyah and Dukan.
The Suse battle took place in May 1974, after the Iraqi government declared war on the Kurds. As a reaction, the Peshmerga forces besieged this camp. The Iraqi Army launched an attack from Sulaymaniyah and Dukan to break the Peshmerga siege and rescue the soldiers, thus a battle broke out between the two sides that lasted for several days.
This battle broke out on December 26, 1976, in the village of Sharstin, located in the northwest of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, between the Peshmerga forces of the Second Region of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and two battalions of the regime's army, and it ended with the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the village of Sharstin.
The Martyr Asad Wasin Ghafur was a cadre in the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of the political prisoners, and a Peshmerga of the popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan. He was wounded once during his struggle in the ranks of the Peshmerga. He was martyred in 1991 in front of the Security Directorate (Amna Suraka) during the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyah.
This battle took place in June 1974 near the village of Farjawa, when the Iraqi Army launched an attack on the Garmian region and wanted to reclaim the area and return it to government control. The Peshmerga Forces confronted it and prevented it from advancing. In this battle, the Peshmerga Forces were able to inflict heavy losses on the Iraqi Army and prevent it from advancing for a period.
On August 4, 1963, the Iraqi Army launched an attack on the village of Bawe Khoshin near Darbandikhan, and during this attack, it clashed with the Peshmerga forces in Qara Dagh. After two hours of fighting and clashes, the Iraqi Army suffered a major defeat and was forced to retreat to the Darbandikhan camp, and also suffered heavy losses.
The year 1969 witnessed a series of attacks launched by the Peshmerga forces on camps and areas that had been occupied by the Iraqi Army and forces belonging to the old Political Bureau. The attack on the Dukan camp by the Peshmerga forces on the night of September 19-20, 1969, was one of a series of campaigns imposed by the Peshmerga forces on the Iraqi Army, and they were able to control the camp and remain in it for a period of time, causing them heavy human and material losses.
The physician and politician Aras Hasso Mirkhani Ghazali, known as Dr. Aras, was a delegate to the Eleventh (1993) and Twelfth (1999) Congresses, and was elected as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Thirteenth Congress in the Year 2010.
The Battle of Gali Sangasar occurred in the autumn of the Year 1974 when the Iraqi Army wanted to attack and take control of the city of Qaladiza. The Peshmerga Forces carried out trenching and fortification measures, and the clashes lasted for ten days. The army finally managed to overcome the Peshmerga defenses and entered the city of Qaladiza on August 19 and took control of it.
Commander Hasso Mahmoud Bakr, known as Hasso Kanilinji, a Peshmerga of the Aylul and Gulan revolutions and the Uprising, joined the ranks of the Peshmerga in the Year 1959, bearer of the Immortal Barzani Medal.
In the series of battles and stories of the Aylul Revolution, the Battle of Zakho Strait is considered one of the important battles that witnessed tight coordination between the Kurdistan Democratic Party organizations within the ranks of the Iraqi Army and the delivery of information to the Peshmerga commanders.
The politician and legal expert Sarbast Lazgin Abdulrahman Abdulqadir, known as (Sarbast Lazgin and Sarbast Sanduri), joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1980, and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces in Year 1981. He was a delegate to the (Tenth 1989), (Eleventh 1993), and (Twelfth 1999) Congresses of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and was elected as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Thirteenth Congress in Year 2010. He was appointed Deputy Minister of Peshmerga in the eighth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Year 2017.
