These 27 maps are a rough guide to today's crisis and the deeper forces behind it. Iraq's three-way demographic divide didn't cause the current crisis, but it's a huge part of it. You can see ...

ISIS's rapid advancement across Iraq in the summer of 2014 has caused so far irreparable damage to any idea of unity in the country. As the following map shows, Iraqi territory can be thought of ...

To the north, Iraq's Kurdish population has seized the opportunity to fill the vacuum left by the Iraqi army, with its militia making advances into IS-held territory. The Kurds have been at ...

Iraq is conducting its first comprehensive nationwide census in nearly four decades. The Ministry of Interior announced a two-day curfew for the extensive operation, which will see 120,000 ...

Iraq is conducting its first census in 27 years. The head count could upset a political power-sharing system that was set up to prevent civil war. Later this week, all of Iraq will be under curfew ...

BAGHDAD — The final results of Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years released Monday show the population has reached 46.1 million. In 2009, an unofficial count estimated the population at 31. ...

Iraq will impose a two-day curfew in November for the country’s first census in 27 years, officials said. “[The] curfew will be imposed in all provinces of Iraq on November 20 and 21 to ...

The last real and generally scientific census in Iraq was in 1957. At the time, Iraq had a population of 6.3 million. That’s just two-thirds of Baghdad’s population today. What was the Basis ...

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been blighted by sectarian and ethnic divisions. The census is scheduled for ...

"There are some crucial details in this census that might be missing to appease all sides to finally allow it to take place," Hadad added. Iraq has been keen to conduct the census for budgetary ...