The 1992 Kurdistan Region general election was held in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 19 May 1992 to elect the president and the 105 members of the Kurdistan National Assembly. It was the first free
Masoud Barzani is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.
Barzani in 2016
A young Massoud Barzani with Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim
President George W. Bush talks to reporters as he welcomes Masoud Barzani to the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Barzani meets with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in January 2019