27 maps that explain the crisis in Iraq

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Demographics Sunni-Shia balance in the Middle East The Kurdish region, in Iraq and beyond Iraq's enormous oil reserves History of Iraq--Christian The Safavid Empire at its height How the Sykes-Picot agreement carved Iraq's borders Saddam Hussein's Al-Anfal campaign against the Kurds The 1990 Gulf War order of battle The anti-Saddam uprisings of 1991 The no-fly zones imposed after the Gulf War Why Saddam drained Iraq's marshes What sanctions did to Iraq The coalition against Iraq, 1990 and 2003 How the invasion overran Iraq in one month How de-Baathification devastated the Iraqi army The rise and fall of the Sunni insurgency, 2006-2008 Iraqi civilian deaths, 2003-2010 The ethnic cleansing of Baghdad ISIS's 2006 plan for Iraq and Syria The Sunni protest movement of 2013 Syria's civil war Where ISIS has control in Iraq and Syria ISIS's war in Iraq as of August 2014 The spike in Iraqi deaths since 2011 Iraqi civilians displaced by the crisis A hypothetical re-drawing of Iraq and Syria