Iraq

Mesopotamia corresponds broadly to modern Iraq.

This source names Iraq directly: "the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria beginning in 2014, which the report concludes constitutes genocide."

This source names Iraq directly: "Its Iraqi affiliate, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, evolved through several name changes into what declared itself Islamic State in 2014, after which the two organizations split and became rivals for leadership..."

This source names Iraq directly: "times been attributed to Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, Sicily and Spain; a Kairouan, Tunisia origin under Fatimid patronage is the attribution most often repeated in recent scholarship, following Jonathan..."

This source names Iraq directly: "was used as a military base during the Iraq War."

Most of the river's course and all of its ancient city sites lie in present-day Iraq.

This source names Iraq directly: "2014, on the difficulty of counting Iraq's Yazidis."

About 55 to 60% Shia Muslim and 35 to 40% Sunni Muslim.

This source names Iraq directly: "A peer reviewed article in Iraq, the journal of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, examining Johannes Kepler's proposal that a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in 7 BCE..."

This source names Iraq directly: "giving dated population estimates for Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion, including a 2019 Al-Monitor study figure."

This source names Iraq directly: "in Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq)."

This source names Iraq directly: "worked at the early Abbasid court in Iraq, born in Basra and originally from Khorasan."

This source names Iraq directly: "More than 600 killed in Iraq stampede, an Al Jazeera news report from 2005, covers the crowd crush on the Al Aimmah bridge in Baghdad during a Shia religious commemoration."

This source names Iraq directly: "in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014, Valeria Cetorelli and colleagues' 2017 study in PLOS Medicine, uses a retrospective household survey method standard in humanitarian mortality..."

This source names Iraq directly: "federal fine in 2017 over smuggled Iraqi antiquities, and the museum returned more than 17,000 looted or undocumented artifacts to Iraq and Egypt between 2018 and 2021, including cuneiform tablets..."

This source names Iraq directly: "with initial raids into Sasanian Iraq in 633 and culminating in the empire's complete collapse by 651."

Took place in the Sheikhan and Sinjar districts of what is now northern Iraq.

This source names Iraq directly: "Mali, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Iraq among members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other jihadist groups."

This source names Iraq directly: "held Mecca, Medina and much of Iraq for over a decade before Umayyad forces under the caliph Abd al-Malik finally besieged and killed him in 692."

This source names Iraq directly: "carried the new faith across Iran and Iraq."

This source names Iraq directly: "history of the Shia community of Iraq, working from the documented historical record to trace how that community's religious institutions actually formed and how they related to Ottoman and later..."

The August 2014 assault on Sinjar, and the enslavement, captivity and displacement that followed through ISIL's territorial defeat in 2017, took place in Iraq, per The Yazidi Genocide's own event-date fact.

Took place in the Sheikhan, Sinjar and Erbil districts of what is now northern Iraq.

The ruins of Babylon lie in modern Iraq, south of Baghdad.

Baghdad is the capital of the modern Republic of Iraq.

Karbala is the capital of its own governorate within the Republic of Iraq.

Najaf lies within the Republic of Iraq.

The mounds of Nineveh lie within modern Mosul in Iraq.

Southern Iraq holds the mounds of Uruk, Ur, Eridu and Nippur.

Babylon, on the Euphrates in what is now Iraq.

The Najibiyyih garden, on the Tigris outside Baghdad.