The RAF is also flying planeloads of ammunition, rifles and machine guns from former Soviet bloc countries in eastern Europe into Irbil in order to strengthen the fighting power of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces who are combatting the jihadis.
Zahawi, a member of the Downing Street policy board who flew to Irbil on Thursday evening, said: "It is important that we have looked at this carefully and taken a position that effectively supports the Kurdish army in their battle, which will be a long-term battle, with the Islamic State.
Should any attempt at insurrection misfire, they point out, it would be the people of Irbil, not the conference-goers in London, who pay the price.
Britain was quick to join America in providing humanitarian help for the Yazidis in Iraq and in training and arming Kurdish Peshmerga forces; British special forces have been active in the area around Irbil.
He gladly provided it, over-running Irbil in the process and forcing INC activists and the CIA to flee the country or face his wrath.Both Kurdish factions now scoff at the thought of any non-Kurdish opposition returning to the area.
September 22, 1211 Arbīl, Iraq October 30, 1282 Damascus, Syria Ibn Khallikān, in full Shams Ad-dīn Abū Al-ʿabbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (born Sept. 22, 1211, Irbil, Iraq died Oct. 30, 1282, Damascus) Muslim judge and author of a classic Arabic biographical dictionary.
In the case of the YPG, they simply send co-ordinates of IS positions back to the US-Kurdish operations room in Irbil, the Kurdish capital, which directs air strikes.
US Central Command said earlier today that military forces using fighter aircraft launched two air strikes north-west of Irbil and hit an armed truck and fighters.
"We would expect hundreds of thousands of people from Mosul to leave, if not more," says Marwa Awad, speaking on behalf of the UN World Food Programme WFPP) in Irbil, the Kurdish capital, 50 miles east of Mosul.
Kurdish officials said their forces – the Peshmerga – were attacked on Wednesday near the town of Makhmour, not far from Irbil, the capital of Kurdish Iraq.
But the city was being bombarded by the Iraqi airforce and Shia militias so he left for Baghdad and finally Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan where he hopes to find a job.
