Gary Kent Articles

The future of Iraq is in the balance, millions of people are fearful for their futures and yet the focus for too many here is how to blame Tony Blair as if the 2003 invasion is the primary cause of the current problems of Iraq. It is very bad history and completely...

Iraq will be on the verge of disaster if we do not see urgent action to reverse its fast-moving and bloody crises, which have been needlessly aggravated by the actions of its prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. Six years ago, I met Maliki in Baghdad on a Labour Friends...

Here we go again. John Chilcot's official Iraq inquiry, which was established in 2009 and has yet to report, has already lasted longer than the first world war and slightly less long so far than the second world war, and continues to generate more heat than light. The...

Iraq is in turmoil as it limbers up to parliamentary elections in April. Deep divisions have hardened between its majority Shia population and the Sunni minority, which feels marginalised. Al Qaeda is exploiting these splits, which have also been exacerbated by the...