QARQASHAH, Iraq — In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous ...

Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its fragile calm.

And in the far north are ethnic Kurds, ... ISIS's 2006 plan for Iraq and Syria. This map is hypothetical, but the fact that it exists at all speaks to ISIS's ambition.

Click here to see where Iraq's ethnic and religious groups live. Enlarge Map. The ascendancy of Iraq's Sunni community began under the Sunni Ottoman Turks, whose empire ruled the Middle East for ...

The wars in Iraq and Syria have effectively merged into one sprawling conflict, especially in light of the massive blitz across northern and central Iraq by militant group ISIS and its affiliates ...

Iraq conflict in maps * ... The country, which was invaded by a coalition led by the US in 2003, has been riven along religious and ethnic lines for the past decade and faces an uncertain future.

The Kurds are members of an ethnic group spread over northern Iraq, north-western Iran, parts of Syria and south-eastern Turkey. They have lived mostly as a mountain people for millennia and adopted a ...

Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its fragile calm.