Kurdish leader Talabani, onetime hope for Iraqi unity, dies

FILE – In this June 1, 2009 file photo, then Kurdish president Massud Barzani, right, and then Iraqi President Jalal Talabani open a ceremonial valve during an event to celebrate the start of oil exports from the autonomous region of Kurdistan, in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, Iraq. Talabani, a lifelong fighter for Iraq’s Kurds who rose to become the country’s president, presenting himself as a unifying father figure to temper the potentially explosive hatreds among Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83. (AP Photo/Safin Hamed, Pool, File)

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