its religious and ethnic divisions, and of course in the Iraq War that began with the 2003 US-led invasion. These 27 maps are a rough guide to today's crisis and the deeper forces behind it.

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 ...

Whatever is decided internationally, the future looks bleak for Iraq as a nation, as calls grow for the country to split into three along ethnic lines.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 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 ...

Sunnis are the majority sect in the Muslim world, but Shias today form as much as 60% of Iraq's population, whereas Sunnis make up 37%, split between ethnic Arabs and Kurds. This demographic dominance ...

Entire communities are at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq. We interviewed hundreds of witnesses ... and many others displaced by the violence of the Islamic State in our new report, Ethnic ...

They come amid rising tensions among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups that threaten to plunge the country back into chaos nearly a decade after the U.S.-led invasion. While there was no ...

Entire communities are at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq. We interviewed hundreds of witnesses ... and many others displaced by the violence of the Islamic State in our new report, Ethnic ...