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Ibrahim Muhammad Aziz, also known as Ibrahim Rashawi (Rashaveyi), was born in the Year 1928 in the village of Rashawi in the Nehli area of the Amidi district in Duhok Governorate. He joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1959, and in the Year 1961, with the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga with his personal weapon.
The events of this epic took place on December 10, 1982, in Siani Gara, 70 kilometers deep inside the area controlled by the Ba'ath government, when the Peshmerga Forces attacked the bases and headquarters of the commando force and armed mercenaries (Jash). The government forces suffered heavy losses in their ranks during three days and nights of battle, and this battle had a great resonance at the regional level.
After the Republic of Kurdistan suffered a setback on December 17, Year 1946, the Barzani forces led by Mullah Mustafa Barzani decided to return to their homeland once again...
The Martyr Ahmed Tawfiq Abdulqadir, Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution, was wounded once during his struggle in the ranks of the Peshmerga. He was martyred in the city of Halabja in Year 1981 after falling into an ambush by Jash and hirelings of the Ba'athist regime. Ahmed Tawfiq Abdulqadir was born in the village of Barwin belonging to the Bamo district in Halabja Governorate in 1951. He was a villager and worked in agriculture, completed primary school, and is married to Akhtar Ahmed, with whom he had two daughters (Khoshk and Parzhin).
This massacre occurred in the summer of 1963 during the rule of the Ba'athists in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, as they thought that such mass crimes and extensive attacks on Kurdistan would extinguish the fire and flame of the Aylul Revolution, and thus they could control all of Kurdistan. Although they began with the mass arrest of unarmed people and killing them in the city of Sulaymaniyah, they not only failed but were defeated in all their attacks at Mount Azmar.
The Martyr Numan Hama Ahmed, was a cadre and Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution, was wounded once during his struggle in the ranks of the Peshmerga and was one of those injured by chemical weapons. He was arrested in 1988 while falling into an ambush by intelligence soldiers belonging to the Ba'athist regime and is still missing, and he is one of the martyrs with unknown graves.
Jafar Suleiman Ali Chiyi was born in the Year 1945 in the village of Chiyi, belonging to the Amidi district in Duhok Governorate. He took refuge in Iran in 1975 after the setback of the Aylul Revolution and settled in Naqadeh, then he was moved to Mashhad. He remained in Mashhad until the Year 1979, and returned in the same year to Karaj where he met Idris Barzani. He remained in Iran until 1981, returned to South Kurdistan in 1981 and resided in the city of Duhok.
After the occurrence of the Qarawe and Mamsha battles between the Peshmerga forces of the Republic of Kurdistan and the Iranian Army, we see that the Iranian forces were forced to reorganize their forces in the region and develop a suitable plan...
The Battle of Bistana broke out as a result of an attack by the Third Brigade of the Iraqi Army on the Erbil Plain force belonging to the Peshmerga, due to the killing of an Arab mercenary leader loyal to the government named Sheikh Anash in the spring of the Year 1968. After a battle that lasted three hours, the Peshmerga forces were able to repel the Iraqi Army's attack, kill a number of officers and soldiers, and force its forces to retreat.
The Martyr Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam was a cadre and Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution, and a responsible for the cell and activities inside the city. He was arrested in the Year 1988 with a group of his comrades in Said Sadiq and was executed with one of his comrades in Abu Ghraib prison.
Haji Khadr Omar, known as (Haji Khadr), was born in the Year 1956 in the village of Bighbar in the Batifa region belonging to the Zakho district. He joined the Aylul Revolution in 1974 and became one of the Peshmerga of the Fourth Haji Qado battalion in Zakho which was led by Isa Siwar. He returned to his region after the setback of the Aylul Revolution in the Year 1975, and later joined the Gulan Revolution where he participated with the Maho Koda detachments in most of the battles in 1983.
After all those battles and fighting that took place between the Barzani forces and the Iranian Army, and on 5 April 1947, all the Iranian forces that were able at that time to control most of the areas under the authority of the Barzanis once again, launched a large-scale attack from several directions on the Barzanis, taking advantage of gunmen from the Mangur tribe...
