Alleged accomplices of Amanj Hassan Zada, who described himself as the "best smuggler" were detained in a "landmark operation" in Kurdistan, the National Crime Agency said.

Three men suspected to be a part of a huge global smuggling network moving migrants from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) into the UK and Europe have been arrested. A huge operation involving the National Crime Agency,

National Crime Agency officers were deployed to Iraq to assist with the arrests in the first operation of its kind.

By bnm Gulf bureau Three men suspected of running a major people smuggling network from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to Britain and Europe have been arrested in a joint operation between British and Iraqi security forces,

Three suspected people smugglers have been arrested in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in a ground-breaking operation involving officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency. It is the first time that the NCA has worked alongside the internal security agencies in Kurdistan,