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Gary Kent Articles

Better together?

The Kurds face the world's wealthiest and best-armed terrorist organisation in Daish (Isil) and are struggling to cope with a 20 per cent increase in their population through a massive influx of desperate refugees and internally displaced people in just a few months....
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Arming the Kurds is crucial for them and for us

The Kurds always knew that the jihadists would come for them. The democratic, pluralist and dynamic Kurdistan region with its greater freedoms for women and the media is a standing affront to the lethal coalescence of Sunni extremists and Ba'athists who have taken...
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Definitely maybe

A Kurdish television interviewer recently demanded I give a straight yes or no answer on Iraqi Kurdish independence. It was difficult because, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, there are so many known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. But I have been...
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A new reality now exists in Iraq

In Erbil this week senior Kurdish leaders told me that they warned Baghdad about the intentions of Isis based on their intelligence. But even they were astonished that a force of a few thousand fighters was able to take on six divisions of the federal army. It is...
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