Former Iraqi president and secretary general of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party died in Berlin after a long period of illness following a brain stroke in 2012.
He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, elected in 2005, two years after the US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
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6 October 2017 - 09:45
News ID: 858590
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad zarif, heading a high-ranking delegation, left Tehran for Baghdad on Friday morning to attend funeral ceremony of the Iraq's former president Jalal Talabani.
