On 19 August 2018, President Masoud Barzani received the well-known Iraqi personality and the head of the al-Shamar Tribe, Sheikh Abdullah Ajil Yawar Alshamari.
At the meeting, the security and political situation in Iraq was discussed, and ways of working for the coexistence of all the components and ending the effects of the ideology of terror and violence were explored. The situation of the displaced persons and their return to their areas and homes, which they had abandoned because of the terrorist attacks, were also highlighted.