Jalal Talabani—or Mam (Uncle) Jalal, as he was widely known—loved to tell jokes. He once recounted how, on his way back to his house in Sulaymaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan, he had spotted a man ...

Iraq President Jalal Talabani says he believes voters will approve his country's draft constitution in a national referendum. Sunnis have a majority in three provinces, enough to sink the document ...

In fractured, postwar Iraq, Jalal Talabani — who died Tuesday in a German hospital at age 83 — had the ability to solve some of the country's most serious problems over lunch. As a skilled ...

By Michael R. Gordon Video of the ailing president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, surfaced just as some voting got underway for the first parliamentary elections since the United States withdrawal in 2011.

Jalal Talabani, who dominated Kurdish politics for decades, ascended to the Iraqi presidency in the post-Saddam Hussein era, and yet remained Mam (“uncle”) Jalal to his people, has died in Berlin.

Former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the country’s first non-Arab president, has died at the age of 83, his family said. His niece, Alaa Talabani, an Iraqi member of parliament, confirmed his ...

ERBIL, Iraq-- Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader who became Iraq's president after the U.S.-led invasion and helped steer the country through years of insurgent and sectarian strife, has died in a ...

25 July 2010 BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met on Sunday in Baghdad with an Iranian official to discuss bilateral economic relations and ways to expand trade exchange between the two ...

As he stepped into office to become Iraq’s first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, “I am casting off my Kurdish clothes and wearing Iraqi ones instead. You must accept that.” ...