Khalid Shli He was born in 1943 in the village of Shli, affiliated with the Amedi district. In 1962, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution . After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution in 1975, he was transferred to the Zewe camp in Eastern Kurdistan. He was responsible for monitoring the refugees of the Zewe complex, and later he was transferred to Khuzestan Governorate and the city of Shushtar. In 1991, during the popular uprising of Kurdistan, he came to the town of Diana with President Masoud Barzani . He participated in the popular uprising of Southern Kurdistan, and later resided in Duhok Governorate. In 1998, he was made a member of the Aylul Agency. In 2004, he became the head of the Aylul Agency in Akre, and in 2013 he retired.
In 1962, he was a soldier in the Iraqi army when he joined the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in Barwari Zheri under Commander Mahmud Agha Chamanki. In the same year, after the expulsion of the Iraqi army and the Jash from the Badinan region, Barzani organized those Badinan forces into three forces and entrusted the responsibility of the region to Asad Khoshawi . He made Isa Swar, Ali Khalil, and Haso Mirkhani commanders of those three forces. Khalid Shli was made a squad leader in the Akre and Sheikhan force, which Haso Mirkhani commanded. In 1973, he was made a platoon leader in the First Battalion of the Sheikhan force, where Ismail Musa was the battalion commander. In 1974, he was made commander of the National Defense Force battalion in the east of the city of Mosul.
In 1979, on the recommendation of Idris Barzani, he returned to the Zewe camp. In the same year, after the 9th Congress of the Party, he returned with Dr. Jarjis Hassan known as (Dr. Jarjis Khansi) and 25 other Peshmerga to Branch One in Komata on the border of Southern and Northern Kurdistan. In 1980, he was made a member of the Sheikhan District Committee and head of the Shaheed Fazil Shli organization in the Sheikhan district, and as a mobile detachment, they struck the enemy and carried out several guerrilla activities. In 1981, he returned to Zewe. In 1987, he came with President Masoud Barzani and part of the members of the Political Bureau to Branch One in the Nerwa and Dutaza region. In 1988, he returned to Zewe. In the same year, he went to the Khwakurk region to participate in the Khwakurk Epic and participated in the battles of Sari Korawa and Qabri Zahir, and after the end of this battle, he returned to the Zewe camp in Eastern Kurdistan.
In 1991, during the popular uprising of Kurdistan, he came to the town of Diana with President Masoud Barzani. Later, he was sent to the Rekan region and went to Zakho under the command of a 50-person force. In 1992, he was made commander of the joint battalion between the Party and the PUK in Sheikhan. In September of the same year, he was a military official in the Fifth Army of Sheikhan. In 1998, he was made a member of the Aylul Agency.
Khalid Shli participated in many battles during his Peshmerga life and was wounded in 1981 in the battle of Konelajan and Darband in Urmia in Eastern Kurdistan. His brother Hazim was martyred in the Khwakurk battle (July 19 - September 5, 1988). In 2014, at the beginning of the ISIS war (August 2, 2014 - October 17, 2016), his brother Jamil was martyred.
On August 16, 1996, at the Golden Jubilee of the Party, due to the services he provided to the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the Barzani path, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani . In 2004, he was the head of the Aylul Agency in Akre. In 2013, he retired. He passed away on September 30, 2025.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.