Fifteen miles from Mosul, groups of dishevelled men eyed us suspiciously at a hastily built and bleak reception camp for thousands fleeing to the Kurdistan Region. The Peshmerga General escorting …
THE UNRAVELLING: HIGH HOPES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN IRAQ by Emma Sky Atlantic Books £18.99 hback, £9.99 pback
The Kurds need Western support to address huge tasks, writes Gary Kent
Gary Kent reports on his recent visit to the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Kurdish Spring: A new map of the Middle East by David L Phillips (Transaction, £16.78)
Iraqi Kurds have gone from being a downtrodden also-ran to a more confident and central actor in the Middle East
Dr Najmaldin Karim, the Kurdish governor of Kirkuk since 2011, told a recent British parliamentary delegation that the Iraqi Army disappeared in a “puff of smoke” as its fleeing commander …
Gary Kent recently returned from Iraqi Kurdistan, which he found transformed, but still with causes for concern
Gary Kent reports on the latest gathering of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly
Iraqi Kurdistan has made tremendous strides in a few short years. The best start date for their renaissance is 2006, the first full year of the new Iraqi constitution, agreed …
Small things speak volumes about a society. Positive vignettes from my fifth fact-finding mission in Iraqi Kurdistan include very low crime levels – shopkeepers leave their wares unguarded on the …
