Masrour Barzani (Arabic: مسرور بارزاني; Kurdish: مەسروور بارزانی, romanized: Mesrûr Barzanî) (born 2 March 1969) [2] is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and serving as prime minister of the Kurdistan Region, since June 2019. [3]

Feb 19, 2024 · In 2022, Shnyar Anwar Hassan, a US citizen from Iraqi Kurdistan, filed an "assault, battery, and defamation" lawsuit against Masrour Barzani, the KRG's prime minister, in the US District Court, Virginia Eastern District. The court's decision is pending.

Masrour Barzani was elected as the Vice President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the party’s 14th Congress held in 2022. In 2005, he founded the Barzani Charity Foundation in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Oct 14, 2024 · The once-cohesive leadership may be splintering as two powerful figures, Masrour Barzani and Nechirvan Barzani, vie for dominance. As both seek to tighten their grip on the family’s legacy, the party’s future, and the fate of the Kurdistan Region, the cracks within may become impossible to ignore.

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s visit to the US will come after he received an official invitation from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.

On January 30, 2024, lawyers for the Kurdistan Victims Fund filed an expansive case against Massoud, Masrour, and Waysi Barzani and many of their key aides. The case alleges a number of crimes ranging from corruption and counterfeiting to torture and murder, and documents each charge extensively.

After August 2014, in the face of ISIS terrorist attacks on the Kurdistan Region, Masrour Barzani, as the chancellor to the Security Council of the Kurdistan Region, formed a joint operations room with the coalition and played a critical role in directing air strikes and conducting field operations against the terrorists, while simultaneously ...

Masrour Barzani is a prominent Kurdish politician and a leading figure in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). In 2012, he was appointed Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), where he played a crucial role in coordinating security and intelligence efforts during a critical period marked by the rise of ISIS.

Feb 12, 2025 · ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, speaking at the World Governments Summit (WGS) in Dubai, underscored Kurdistan’s commitment to economic diversification, investment opportunities, and sustainable energy solutions. He emphasized the region’s ambition to emerge as a leading player in economic growth and technological transformation while strengthening ...

Jan 15, 2023 · Recently, there has been a great deal of misinformation and disinformation spread by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). As our key partner in the government, they claim that my administration has imposed an embargo on the province of Suleymania.