Mustafa Abdulrahman Sofi was born in 1948 in the village of Derana in the Mezni sub-district, Mergasor district, Erbil Governorate. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in Iran, initially settling in Zewe, and later moved to the Jahrom area in Shiraz province. In 1980, he returned to Eastern Kurdistan and settled in the city of Oshnavieh. He currently resides in the city of Soran. He has been active in the field of writing and composing poetry, having written nearly a thousand pages of poetry, along with a historical book that has not yet been published.
In 1965, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Haji Birokhi Battalion of the Balak Force. Due to his young age, he was initially assigned to Peshmerga service duties, but later served as a combatant Peshmerga. He then underwent training on (60, 81, 120 mm) mortars and was appointed as a mortar gunner for the force in the Balak Force support branch under the supervision of Abdullah Agha Pishdari and the command of Hali Dolamari. Between 1970 and 1974, he served as a border guard. In 1974-1975, he participated in the battles in the Soran region and the Rawanduz basin.
In 1980, he returned to the Oshnavieh region and joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution and participated in the Gulan Revolution within the framework of the Awara Force, specifically in the Khwakurk and Khrina areas.
In 1991, he rejoined the Peshmerga Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1995, he was transferred to the 100th Barzan Force under the command of the Zeravani Forces. Later, he became the commander of the Third Force of the Barzan Army Command.
On December 15, 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to his services to the Kurd and Kurdistan, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal by President Masoud Barzani the Barzani the Immortal Medal was awarded to him.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.