ISIS Disposition and Ethnic Groups in Syria and Iraq

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Manbij Hasaka (Al Haksa) Groups in Syria and Iraq Harim Salqin Aleppo Al Bab Al Hasakah Mediterranean Mosul Christians Sea Darkush Kassab Tall `Afar Idlib Aleppo (Halab) Ar Raqqah Assyrians, Chaldians, Armenians, Ariha Saraqib Arbil and other Christians Raqqah Jisr ash Shughur Maskanah Ash Shaddadah Erbil Idlib Ninawa Levantines (Arabic speaking Christians) Ma`arrat an Nu`man Latakia Markadah Murak Shi'a Muslims

Muhradah Hamah Ash Sharqat Kirkuk As-Sulaymaniyah Alawites (Arabic speaking) Hamah At-Ta'mim Iraqioum (Arabic speaking) Tartus Dayr Az Zawr Al Mayadin Tallkalakh Homs Sunni Muslims SYRIA Bayji Tuzkhurmatu Arabs Jusiyah Tikrit Jazirans (Arabic speaking) Albu Kamal Al Qa'im LEBANON `Anah Homs (Hims) Khanaqin Shi'a/Sunni Muslims Yabrud Sala ad-Din Samarra' Hadithah Kurds (including Yezidi) Ad Dulu`iyah Judaydat Yabus Al Miqdadiyah Turkomans (Azeri speaking Alevis) Balad Damascus Ba`qubahDiyala Hit Other Ethnic Groups

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5 FEB 2016 Persian Gulf TRADOC G20 Sources: Global Cultural Knowledge Network Ethnic group data: Dr. Michael Izady (2008, 2014), gulf2000.columbia.edu/maps.shtml ISIS and city disposition data: Institute for the Study of War, http://www.understandingwar.org/ Basemap data: Natural Earth v2.0, http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ KUWAIT

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