This is an entry from: Live Blog: War against Islamic State
UK MP urges house to support Kurds more
26 September 2014 15:59 BST
Mike Gapes, a UK member with the opposition Labour party, has urged the House of Commons during their debate over joining airstrikes in Iraq to provide greater support to the Kurdish peshmerga.
He told politicians, who at 16:00 GMT will vote on the motion to participate in the coalition strikes in Iraq only, that the Kurdish Peshmerga have fought bravely but are lightly-armed.
He praised the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan for being a "functioning democracy", and praised them for hosting 1.4m internally displaced people who fled to the region after the IS advance further south in Iraq.