Name: Sirwan
Surname: Barzani
Father's name: Sabir Mustafa Sheikh Mohammed Barzani
Year of birth: 1970.
Place of birth: Erbil
$Biography$
Sirwan Sabir Mustafa Sheikh Mohammed, also known as Sirwan Barzani, joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1987 and the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces in the same year. He was a delegate to the 11th (1993) and 12th (1999) congresses of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 2010, he was elected as a member of the leadership council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the 13th congress.
Sirwan Barzani was born in 1970 in Erbil, Kurdistan. In 1998 he graduated from Zakho Military College. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in national security by the Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology in the Arab Republic of Egypt. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and English.
$Revolutionary Activities$
Sirwan Barzani fled to Iran with his family in 1975 after the collapse of the September Revolution. In 1979, he returned to South Kurdistan with his father and was exiled to Baghdad. In 1987 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and in 1987 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces. In 1988, he participated in the battle of Khawkurk against the Iraqi army. In 1990, he was in charge of Massoud Barzani's security detail and in 1991, he was assistant to Nechirvan Barzani during the uprising in South Kurdistan and participated in the liberation of Sulaymaniyah.
He was a delegate to the 11th (1993) and 12th (1999) congresses of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
In 1994, he was the commander of the Barzan army of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1999, he was an advisor to President Massoud Barzani. In 2014, he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General by the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2014, he was appointed head of the sixth military front in Giwer-Makhmur in Erbil province.[1]