Born to a patriotic Erbil Kurdish family in 1989, the father of the commander of Kurdistan Commando Forces, Akam Omar, is a veteran Peshmerga Omar Osman, who served as a Peshmerga between 1978 and 2007. Martyr Akam was born to a revolutionary Peshmerga family, and a fighting spirit ran throughout his family. Martyr Gurun, the commander of the PUK artillery, was Martyr Omar's uncle.

Martyr Akam left two sisters, and a brother behind was the third child of his family and was unwed. He finished his primary and secondary education in Erbil. Akam had an excellent command of English, and Americans offered him a job. Between 2006 and 2010, he worked with the American forces as an interpreter. In 2011, he moved to the United States with the help of Americans and enrolled at an American military college.

As the war against ISIS begins, he moves back to the Kurdistan region and starts working for Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa, the then commander-in-chief of the Peshmerga 70th Corps and the overseer of the Peshmerga frontlines against ISIS.

Martyr Akam greatly assisted in forging closer ties between the Peshmerga forces and the International Coalition against ISIS. He knew both sides well and had experience working for both, which helped him bring them closer to a better fight against ISIS. In 2015, he was transferred to the Kirkuk front, and Sheikh Jafar formed a task force of 38 Peshmerga with Martyr Akam as the force's commander. 

Creating a Peshmerga special forces was a turning point in the war against ISIS as it denied the enemy the advantage of surprise attacks using its small terrorist groups. The special troops counter-acted the ISIS tactics. Commander Akam also reorganized the foreign volunteers fighting against ISIS and brought them under a single command, making it an effective force against ISIS. 

Commander Akam's force provided critical assistance to peshmerga forces fighting against ISIS as the force served as a rescue unit for Peshmerga trapped fighting the terrorist groups.

His small unit grew and came to be known as Kurdistan Commando Forces. US, Germany, and France trained the Kurdish special forces and equipped it with necessary weapons. Martyr Akam turned the small unit into a formidable force, numbering over three thousand by the end of 2020, from only 38 Peshmerga. The commando was a determining factor in battles against ISIS, as it broke the morale of ISIS and fought with a warrior spirit. In a video, Martyr Akam talks to new recruits, telling them that they are the first line of defense in their fight against terrorism, and only 13 percent of his force are not injured in battle.

Akam Omar was wounded twice in the fight to liberate Mosul in October 2016. In 2017 an explosive-laden vehicle drove towards his unit, and Commander Akam blew the car up using an AT4 before reaching the Peshmerga battlefront, saving many lives but leaving himself severely injured from the explosion. For nine times, Commander Akam stood to car bombs and stopped them before breaching Peshmerga fronts. 

Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa praised Martyr Akam's bravery in an interview, saying, "whenever a bullet was shot in the long frontlines [against ISIS] he was always there to defend the Peshmerga."

In 2017, ISIS launched an attack on a US military base in Kirkuk's K1 military base; the commando forces went to the rescue of the Americans, a suicide bomber blew up Martyr Akam's unit, injuring Commander Akam and five other Peshmergas, and the Americans later took him to the United States for treatment.

Commander Akam believed in fighting for freedom and ignored party politics. In 2016, ISIS sieged six Peshmergas in the KDP-led fifth front, KDP politburo member Kamal Karkuki commanded the front, but Commander Akam rescued the Peshmerga, even though the Peshmerga were controlled by the KDP and fell under a separate command chain of KDP-led Peshmerga.

Akam Omar was the first Peshmerga to reach the rank of brigadier at 33, approved by a presidential decree as he was a skilled Peshmerga and talented commander. Commander Akam never wore his military rank to create a friendly sphere with his fellow Peshmerga and avoid looking down on his friends. 

Commander Akam was a philanthropist giving away a large portion of his income to hospitals and the needy and always attended to the needs of cancer hospitals. He always placed excellence and skills over nepotism and recruited based on CV and experience.

Commander Akam Omar continued serving the Kurdistan region and the fight against terrorism until October 19, 2022, when a network of land mines went off his convoy in Sulaimani's Garmian region during a search operation for ISIS remnants. The blast killed a commando explosion specialist and left commander Akam severely injured. He was initially moved to a Sulaimani hospital but later moved to a hospital in Germany; he remained under intensive care until he became a martyr on December 12, 2022.

His body was returned to Sulaimani in the Kurdistan region on December 17, 2022, for a funeral procession at the Sulaimani International Airport; hundreds of Iraqi and Kurdish military leaders, government officials, and foreign diplomats greeted the fallen commander's coffin and laid their wreath. Thousands of mourners in Sulaimani lined the streets with flowers and the Kurdistan flag.