New Mapping Displaced Minorities Inward Iraq

Al Jazerra has released a written report into the displacement of minority groups inwards Republic of Iraq caused yesteryear the country's civil state of war too the ascent of ISIS. Included inwards the written report is an Odyssey.js powered interactive map, Timeline: Iraq's Minorities Forced to Flee.

The map uses information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees too the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to furnish a timeline highlighting simply about of the primary incidents where Iraqi minority groups accept been forced to flee their homes. The map provides a chronlogical timeline of simply about of the major occurrences which accept led to the displacement of Shia, Christian, Shabak too Yazidis Iraqis.


A Rogue State Along Two Rivers is a New York Times interactive which explore the ascent of ISIS yesteryear next the paths of the Tigris too Euphrates Rivers. The interactive stitches together a serial of aerial images of both rivers to practice a linear narrative equally yous scroll downwardly the page.

Obviously at that topographic point is a danger amongst this form of linear narrative that the medium becomes the whole message. Any ISIS related word stories which hand off simply about distance from the ii rivers are non going to come inwards to the map. However the fact that urban settlements inwards northern too western Republic of Iraq grew-up along the ii rivers agency that this linear course of study of narrative industrial plant really good inwards exploring the ascent of ISIS inwards Iraq.

As yous scroll downwardly either river, overlays explicate the province of affairs inwards towns too cities, oft amongst links to fuller reports inwards the New York Times. H5N1 little map inset tracks your progress equally yous scroll downwardly the river too a little window overlay reports the release of miles remaining until the river reaches Baghdad.

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