Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has had a stroke and his medical team in Baghdad is still trying to stabilize his condition, a spokesman for the prime minister said Tuesday. Talabani, a rare ...

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 ...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has been hospitalized in Baghdad after suffering a stroke and is in stable condition, a spokesman for the prime minister said Tuesday. The development injected new ...

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was in stable condition late Tuesday after he was rushed to a Baghdad hospital Monday night, his office said. In a statement issued Tuesday night, the president’s ...

Former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, one of the country’s most powerful and unifying leaders and a man who spent much of his life fighting for the cause of the Kurds of northern Iraq ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will be flown to Germany for more treatment after he suffered a stroke earlier this week, two Kurdish officials close to him said Wednesday. Medical ...

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 ...

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.

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.” ...