Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An san Kifri yana da mai tun farkon shekarun 1820. Kifri, wanda kuma aka sani da Salahiye a lokacin zamanin Ottoman, na daga cikin Daular Ottoman har zuwa lokacin da Burtaniya ta kwace garin a watan Afrilun 1918 yayin yakin Mesopotamiya. A lokacin kamawar, an kama fursunonin Ottoman 565 da bindigar dutse daya. Kurdawan yankin sun goyi bayan Birtaniyya kuma an bayyana su a matsayin masu adawa da Ottoman. Biritaniya ta rasa iko a kan garin na kwanaki biyu a lokacin tawaye na 1920
zuwa ga kabilun yankin. An kashe Kyaftin G. H. Salmon a lokacin da 'yan kabilar suka karbe iko.