UK about to deport up to 30 Kurdish asylum seekers to Iraq despite dangers

Foreign Office warns against all travel to the country where Islamic State is still a threat

Up to 30 Kurdish asylum seekers are facing deportation to Iraq in the first Home Office flight of its kind for a decade.

Iraq is deemed to be so dangerous that the Foreign Office warns against all travel there, warning of a high threat of kidnapping throughout the country including from both Daesh [Islamic State] and other terrorist and militia groups".