Only two areas in the Diyala Governorate were under Kurdish control: Darbandikhan and Khanaqin.
In the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc won more than 55,000 votes, leaving the rest of the opposition parties with less than 1,000 together.
Khanaqin |
Political conflicts during his twenty-year rule led to clashes in the west with the Arab clans Banu Oqayl (from whom he temporarily seized Daquq in 998) and the Banu Mazyad, as well as a campaign against Zahman bin Hendi, lord of Khanaqin, whose family he destroyed in 999.