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Iraq Crisis: Who's In Control Of What? Map Shows Cities Under ISIS, Government Or Kurdish Forces -- IBTimes
As an al-Qaida offshoot makes advances in Iraq and government forces push back against the militants to reassert control over cities, the flurry of fighting in the country has made it difficult for the casual observer to discern who is in control of a particular area or region.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and the Kurdish peshmerga force between them now control large swathes of the country's north and northeast. The Institute for the Study of War, or ISW, a non-profit, public policy research organization, has produced this “Control of Terrain in Iraq” map dated Thursday that distinctly marks areas based on who was controlling them on that day.
In addition to the map, Agence France-Presse has an update on the status of seven key cities in Iraq as of Friday morning:
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My Comment: Bottom line .... half of the country is experiencing a civil war.
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