Iraq Articles

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...

Today’s report by the defence select committee, of which I am part, does not pull its punches on the failure of the UK to engage effectively against the extremists that continue to peddle terror from their base in Iraq and Syria. So far the government’s actions to...

It was the Iraq war that dominated prime minister’s questions today. Diane Abbott appeared regal in the House to ask a question on the inquiry and reminded us what a more representative parliament might look like. There were a lot of questions from the army of smarmy...

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....