Gary Kent Articles

The influx into Kurdistan of over 100,000 Christians from Mosul as part of a wider exodus last August sparked immediate action by Christians in the capital, Erbil, and internationally. The head of Britain's Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, recently...

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's reply, in the last few hours of this parliament and government, to the report of the foreign affairs committee on UK policy towards the Kurdistan region is a model of precision, or a perfunctory response to a sophisticated...

That 'Snow is the primary form of precipitation in Kurdistan' may astonish those new to Kurdish issues. The mountain snow irrigates the land where agriculture was born. The mountains have also long been seen by the Kurds as their only friends given how many times they...

The news that the Chilcot report will be released after the election has suffocated coverage of a magisterial report from the Foreign affairs committee about Iraqi Kurdistan. Once again, we generally see Iraq as a domestic issue at the expense of where Iraqis are now....