Muhammad Faraj Shaways was born in Year 1963 in the village of Nawa, belonging to the Khurmal sub-district in Halabja Governorate. He was a villager, completed primary school, and was forcibly deported by the Ba'athist regime to the Sayyid Sadiq district, where he opened a shop for selling sweets inside the markets of Sayyid Sadiq.

He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga in Year 1989 in the Martyr Abu Bakr Bani Banoki battalion belonging to the Sorin forces in the Darbandikhan Regional Committee within the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

He participated in the Battle of Qajar, the Battle of Shanidari, the Battle of Ahmad Awa, the Battle of Razla, the Battle of Rabaya Bani Shiran at the foot of Mount Sorin, the Battle of Mount Sharam, guerrilla warfare activities in the Sharazur Plain, guerrilla warfare activities inside the city of Sulaymaniyah, and he was one of the Peshmerga who played a distinguished role by attacking the Popular Army headquarters in Sulaymaniyah, which led to their burning.

Muhammad Faraj Shaways was wounded three times during his struggle in the ranks of the Peshmerga. He was wounded by gunfire in Year 1982 in the village of Bani Banoki during his attack to recapture the positions and sites of the Ba'athist regime at the foot of Mount Sorin. In the month of August 1983, he and a group of his Peshmerga comrades fell into an ambush by the mercenaries (Jash) of the Ba'athist regime and was wounded in the leg by gunfire. In Year 1984, he took shelter with three of his Peshmerga comrades in one of the caves at the foot of Mount Sorin after performing a guerrilla combat activity near the village of Bardabal, where they were able to burn a number of military vehicles of the Ba'athist regime, but they were subjected to artillery shelling while inside the cave, which led to its collapse. As a result, Muhammad Faraj Shaways was wounded and one of his Peshmerga comrades, Hama Saeed Jomarsi, was martyred.

In Year 1985, he obtained the Member Level of the Darbandikhan Regional Committee belonging to the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 20 October 1986, when Muhammad Faraj Shaways intended to enter the Sharazur Plain with a group of his Peshmerga comrades, they fell into an ambush by the soldiers of the Ba'athist regime near the Rabaya of the village of Dardsuran behind the village of Ahmad Awa, and Muhammad Faraj Shaways was martyred, while his comrade Anwar Haji Osman was seriously wounded.  

Source:

Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.