Anwar Said Mustafa, known as (Anwar Said Agha), was born in 1955 in the village of Nawanda, part of the Balak area, Choman District, Erbil Governorate, and went to school there. In 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the country of Iran and resided in the Bahram camp. In 1976 he returned and was deported to southern Iraq. In 1977 he returned to his homeland. He has knowledge of Kurdish literature and knows the Persian and Arabic languages.

In 1972 he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Karokh Force, later joining the National Defense Battalion and then the Handren Force. In 1974 he went to the party branch under Muhammad Maruf. In some of the battles of that time, especially the final battle of the Aylul Revolution, in 1977 he joined the forces of the Socialist Movement and in the mountain struggle reached the rank of Regional Commander. He participated in several partisan activities in the Soran area and other places. In 1977 he resumed his Peshmerga service within the Socialist Movement. From 1978 to 1979 he was a detachment commander, from 1979 to 1982 deputy platoon commander, from 1982 to 1983 platoon commander, and from 1983 to 1991 he was the commander of the 9 Balaki Region of the Kurdistan Socialist Party.

  He participated in several battles and was lightly wounded twice in 1983 and 1988. Some of his battles include: the July 1978 battles in Gundazhor, Sherkawa in 1978, Darbandi Rayat in 1979, Mount Sork and Rashk in July 1980, Choman in September 1980. He participated in both military operations (amaliyat) of the Choman Security Directorate (Daire) in the years 1980 and 1981, the battle of the Banagalan guard post in Choman in April 4 1982, the Razan guard post in May 1983, Kosp-e Spi in 1983, the battles of the Rost Valley from 1983 to 1984, Gomaspan and Degala in 1987, partisan activity in 1987 and another activity in Jundian in 1987, Warti in May 21 1988, the Balayan Valley in 1988 and several other battles.

In 1981 he was a cadre of the Kurdistan Socialist Party and a member of the First Congress of the Socialist Party. In 1982 he was a delegate of the Jud Front in the Balak area. From 1991 to 1992 he was an administrative member of the Erbil Socialist Branch. In 1992 he was a member of the first congress of the Unity Party and until 1993 he was an administrator of the Erbil Governorate Branch and responsible for the Soran District Committee within the Unity Party.

Anwar Said Agha, as a military commander in the Soran area, carried out military activity. Especially during the Anfal campaigns, when travel to the southern side was very difficult, he and his force returned to the Soran area several times and maintained direct contact with the people and secret cells. Due to his closeness to the Jud Front and later the Kurdistan Front, he was aware of the decisions of the political leadership. Therefore, before the Uprising, there was a plan for him to return to Soran and incite the people of that area to rise up and support them. However, for several reasons, that plan was halted. After changing the plan, his force, along with several other commanders and Peshmerga, arrived near Sangasar on March 1 1991 and stayed in that area for several days. With the uprising of the people in Ranya, they reached Ranya on March 5 1991.

From 1993 to 1997 he was an administrative member of Branch 10 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . From 1996 to 1997 he was responsible for the Balak District Committee. In 1995 he was the commander of the 68 Brigade in Soran, from 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Balak Army and responsible for army organization, and from 2003 to present 2026 he has been a member of the Halkord Command with the rank of Brigadier General.

In 1993 he was a member of the 11 Congress and in 2009 he was a member of the 12 Congress of the Party. Parallel to his enlightenment work, in addition to public speeches, he has published newspaper articles in the Brayati and Khabat newspapers.

After the Uprising, from 1994 to 1999 he participated in the defense battles of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and from 2014 to 2017 he was on the war front against ISIS in Bashiqa. In 2018, due to his services to the Kurd and Kurdistan, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal by President Masoud Barzani was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal.

Sources

1- Encyclopedia of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, interview, 2026. www.partipedia

2- Anwar Said Agha, television interview, Ranya: Rudaw Channel, Feature program, Interviewer: Bakhtiar Qadir, March 5 2018.

3- Anwar Said Agha, Uprising, television interview, Soran: Kurdistan 24, News, Interviewer: Tayfur Muhammad, March 5 2018.

4- Anwar Said Agha, Recounting some historical information on the day of the Uprising; Khabat Newspaper, Issue 5706, March 4 2019.

5- Said Kaka, Memoirs of a Peshmerga, Erbil: Shahab Printing House, 2012, p. 327.

6- Karwan Karim Khan, That Shaggy Lion of the Mountain, Article, Personal Page:

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7- Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, Interview, Gulanakhana: Rudaw Television, March 5 2018.