Nestled in the tri-border region between Iraq, Türkiye, and Iran, the Qandil Mountains have long been shrouded in myth.

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Personal:Birth date: November 12, 1933 Death date: October 3, 2017 Birth place: Kelkan, Iraq ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Personal:Birth date: November 12, 1933 Death date: October 3, 2017 Birth place: Kelkan, Iraq ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.Personal:Birth date: November 12, 1933Death date: ...

1998 – Talabani and rival Kurdish Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani sign a peace agreement that provides for the joint governing of their respective areas of Kurdistan.

IRBIL, Iraq — As he stepped into office in 2005 to become Iraq’s first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, “I am casting off my Kurdish clothes and wearing Iraqi ones ...

Talabani, also known as Mam Jalal, joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1947 at age 14 and served as a politician, Peshmerga fighter and journalist.

News about Jalal Talabani, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader and former president of Iraq, died earlier this month, five years after being incapacitated by a stroke and days after a controversial referendum on Kurdish ...

Thousands of Iraqi Kurdish mourners, Iraqi officials and world dignitaries attended the funeral of Jalal Talabani, the country's first president in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and once a symbol of ...