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CALGARY, April 13, 2016 – Today, Member of Parliament for Calgary Shepard, Tom Kmiec was elected chair of the Parliamentary Friends of the Kurds, an all-party caucus within Canada’s Parliament dedicated to supporting Kurdish refugees in their transition to life … Continue reading →

The British Minister for the Middle East, Tobias Ellwood, has paid tribute to the victims of the Anfal campaign on Anfal Day, 14 April. The British Government refused to follow the example of the House of Commons in formally recognising … Continue reading →

A letter-writer in a national magazine in Britain recently demanded one example of a good British intervention in the Middle East. My reply cited two: the liberation of Kuwait and initiating a no-fly zone over the Kurdistan Region. 5 April … Continue reading →

Dear Sir John Major Twenty five years the Kurds in Iraq were once again at the mercy of a genocidal dictator and the British public was horrified and angered by scenes of hundreds of thousands of Kurdish families fleeing for … Continue reading →

A dramatic increase in Kurds refused visas for the UK has been revealed in a parliamentary answer. Between April and September last year 1,165 of 1,790, or two-thirds of all applications made in Erbil were turned down. The All-Party Parliamentary … Continue reading →

Twenty five years ago this month, Iraqi Kurds rose against Saddam Hussein and, for instance, captured the Red House in Slemani after days of fierce fighting. It was a vile torture centre where thousands were murdered, and women raped in … Continue reading →

Minutes of APPG Kurdistan meeting on Wednesday 24 February at the Commons. The guest speaker was Yousif Mohammed Sadiq MP, Speaker of the Kurdistani Parliament. APPG Chair Jason McCartney MP and Director Gary Kent discussed the current situation with the … Continue reading →

Nadhim Zahawi: The Kurdistan Regional Government army has been valiantly battling against Daesh over a 1,000 km frontline since summer 2014. Will my right hon. Friend pay tribute to the peshmerga and say more about the role they may play … Continue reading →

If something is too good to be true, it usually means that it is. That is a reasonable conclusion to draw from the Iraqi Prime Minister’s recent offer to the Kurdistan Region to pay its civil servants’ salaries in return … Continue reading →

A living hell makes death preferable. At her lowest point, Runak (not her real name) wanted to be bombed by Western jets rather than live in Daesh captivity. Her story should shock us into action. Runak is a Kurdish Yezidi … Continue reading →