Barzani speaks to British Foreign Secretary who pledges humanitarian support for Kurdistan

President Massoud Barzani on Sunday evening received a telephone call from British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, expressing support for Kurdistan amid the region’s ongoing battle with Islamic militants.

Secretary Hammond - gave special thanks to President Barzani for his assistance to scores of internally displaced citizens and for the push-backs on so-called Islamic State militias that had seized multiple towns near to the Kurdistan region – said the first consignment of British aid to civilians sheltering in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq is expected to be dropped "imminently.”

President Barzani outlined the importance of this war, and he assured the international community that the people of Kurdistan will come out victorious; the people of Kurdistan had sacrificed greatly to protect all its components against former tyrant regimes. He also called on the international community to supply Kurds with weapons to support them in the face of Islamic State militants.

“This is the truth that the world should know,” Mr Barzani said. “So we are left out to fight all these terrorists, all these problems on our own.”