Britain will increase financial assistance to Iraq to help in the battle against Islamic State militants, Philip Hammond has announced.
A reported £2 million will be contributed to a new United Nations fund, while Britain will continue to make a "significant contribution to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts" in the fight against the terror group.
The money will go towards a UN Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilisation (FFIS) that will push resources into areas as they are cleared of IS fighters.
The Foreign Secretary confirmed the contribution after attending an anti-IS summit with international ministers in Paris on Tuesday at which Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said his country needed "the support of the world" but "we are not getting it" in pushing back the IS advance.
