Category Archives: General

The APPG and the KRG UK held a large rally in the House of Commons on Monday 6 March to mark the chemical bombardment of Halabja on 16 March 1988 and the Anfal genocide. It was chaired by Nadhim Zahawi … Continue reading →

The Daesh wolf attacked us three years ago but we expelled it and our Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army will surely evict it from Mosul. But the beast left many victims in dire physical and psychological conditions. We cannot cope … Continue reading →

By Rudaw LONDON, UK – On Monday, just days after President Trump issued his controversial executive order temporarily banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries and placing an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, the UK House of Commons unanimously rejected … Continue reading →

Attendance: Henry Smith MP, Ian Lucas MP, Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Jack Lopresti MP, Ian Austin MP, Alistair Burt MP, David Burrowes MP, Mike Gapes MP, Kate Osamor MP, Rob Marris MP, Bob Stewart MP, John Woodcock MP, George Howarth … Continue reading →

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. It began for me almost accidentally. My first fleeting experience of the Kurds was in 1991 when I helped send … Continue reading →

The APPG on the Kurdistan Region holds an extraordinary general meeting on Monday 23 January from 5-6pm in W4 in the Commons with discussion led by the Director Gary Kent and the KRG High Representative Karwan Jamal Tahir.

I stood over the toilet and thought long and hard. ‘Should I press the button and flush it’? The house we were in was once an ordinary house. Now it is an empty house in a place no-one has ever … Continue reading →

Groups of dishevelled men eyed us suspiciously at a hastily built and bleak reception camp fifteen miles from Mosul to accommodate thousands fleeing to the Kurdistan Region. The Peshmerga General escorting our cross-party team of British MPs mentioned that most … Continue reading →

The British Prime Minister Theresa May began her speech at this week’s Conservative conference by gently mocking her new foreign secretary in asking “Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full four days?” – “Just about” was her own … Continue reading →

“And then there’s Iraq” is a phrase often used by critics of the Blair years who have been boosted by the re-election as leader of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, whose apology for invading Iraq easily won the biggest … Continue reading →