Gary Kent Articles

Does the recent deal on oil exports between the Iraqi Kurds and Haider al-Abadi's new federal government in Baghdad end dreams of Kurdish independence? The interim agreement, prompted by the need to urgently maximise oil revenues, given falling prices, and also...

Women's rights in Kurdistan have a dedicated champion in Pakshan Zangana; a physics graduate from Baghdad University, life-long communist, MP for four years and former Peshmerga who took to the mountains to fight Saddam Hussein. She has just answered the appeal for...

Three hundred thousand Kurds live in Britain and have traditionally voted Labour, not least in north London where there are many Kurds from Turkey. However, there is a growing gap between their solidarity with Kobane and Iraqi Kurdistan and Labour's policy on armed...

About 50 miles separate this city, Erbil, from the modern and well-armed incarnation of fascism, the so-called Islamic State, which is battering Kobane into submission in Syria. But the main peril at this moment for the Kurdistan region in Iraq, which the foreign...