Kurdistan Revolutionary Hezbollah

Not to be confused with Kurdish Hezbollah.
Kurdistan Revolutionary Hezbollah
حیزبوڵڵای شۆڕشگێڕی کوردستان
LeadersAdham Barzani
Dates of operation1983-2003 (militarily)
IdeologyIslamism
Sunni-Shia unity
Anti-Ba'athism
Allies Iran
Opponents Ba'athist Iraq

The Kurdistan Revolutionary Hezbollah (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای شۆڕشگێڕی کوردستان; Arabic: حزب الله الثوري الكردستاني; the Revolutionary Party of God of Kurdistan) is a Kurdish Islamist political movement and former militant group founded in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1988 under the leadership of Adham Barzani.

History

The Kurdistan Revolutionary Hezbollah was founded in 1983 under the leadership of Adham Barzani. It was a militant group that fought against the Ba'athist government during the Iran–Iraq War. It was close to the SCIRI. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the group was inactive as its fighters felt they had nothing else to fight.[1][2][3][4] In 1999, the KRH trained militants of the Kurdish Hezbollah of Hüseyin Velioğlu in the city of Soran, Iraq.[5]

In early 2024, amid an increase of attacks by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, IRGC channels claimed that the KRH was remobilising to attack American and Israeli interests in the Kurdistan Region.[6] In late 2024, there were further reports of the KRH remobilising after more than twenty years of inactivity, although Adham Barzani distanced himself from the claims.[7]

References

  1. ^ "مكتب أدهم بارزاني يوضح الشائعات حول إعادة تأسيس حزب الله الثوري الكردستاني". العربية - Rojnews.news (in Arabic). 2024-12-20. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  2. ^ Kurdistan Revolutionary Hizballah Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  3. ^ "Iraqi Political Groups". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  4. ^ "Ethem Barzani: Kürdistan Devrimci Hizbullah'ın kurulması tartışmaları gündemde yok". RojNews (in Turkish). 2024-12-19. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  5. ^ "Hizbullah Irak'ta eğitildi". Milliyet (in Turkish). 1999-04-03. Archived from the original on March 23, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. ^ ""حزب الله"... في كردستان العراق". www.majalla.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  7. ^ "أدهم بارزاني ينأى بنفسه عن مساعي اعادة تأسيس "حزب الله الثوري الكوردستاني"". شفق نيوز (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-12-20.