Gary Kent Articles

With a referendum looming, Kurdistan stands on the cusp of independence – but it would be unwise to think a 'yes' vote is already in the bag, writes Gary Kent The announcement that the Kurds are holding a referendum on independence from Iraq on 25 September has so far...

With our support, the pro-western Kurdistan Region could be a magnet for decent, secular and progressive change in the Middle East, writes Gary Kent The Kurds in Iraq have been less visible recently but this is only a lull before political storms about reconstruction,...

Last week British members of parliament visited a Christian suburb of Mosul where Iraqi officers told us of the unprecedented unity between the Iraqi and Kurdish armies which once fought each other but are now closing on the common enemy of the Islamic State. That...

Last week I was fifty miles from Mosul in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq where life was fairly normal and safe although its calm was occasionally pierced by the sirens of ambulances speeding wounded soldiers to hospital and American helicopters...