Between 22 and 23 April 1991, ITN's Andrew Simmons travelled through Iraqi Kurdistan to meet Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The visit came some six weeks into the Kurdish uprisings against the regime of Saddam Hussein, whose military defeat in the Gulf War earlier that year led to a series of anti-regime uprisings among the Shia of southern Iraq and the Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan, in the country's north. By the time of Simmons' visit, Western powers had launched Operation Provide Comfort, a military operation designed to defend Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq from Iraq's military response to the uprisings, primarily by enforcing a no-fly zone over the region and delivering aid to refugees. #Iraq #Kurdistan #KurdistanDemocraticParty #KDP #SaddamHussein #Saddam #MasoudBarzani #Barzani #GulfWar #Rebellion #History #Kurds #Kurdish #OperationProvideComfort #Warfare #Uprising
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