The Foreign and Commonwealth Office today amended the travel advice for the Kurdish Regional Government-controlled provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, to remove the advice against all but essential travel.
http://www.gnn.gov.uk//Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=252511&NewsAreaID=2
seen at 10:26, 22 December in Foreign and Commonwealth Office News - national.