IRAQ, YEAR 2020: Update on Incidents According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) Compiled by ACCORD, 25 March 2021
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IRAQ, YEAR 2020: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 25 March 2021 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, 6 May 2018b; administrative divisions: GADM, 6 May 2018a; incid- ent data: ACLED, 12 March 2021; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 IRAQ, YEAR 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 25 MARCH 2021 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Protests 1795 13 36 Conflict incidents by category 2 Explosions / Remote 1761 308 824 Development of conflict incidents from 2016 to 2020 2 violence Battles 869 502 1461 Methodology 3 Strategic developments 580 7 11 Conflict incidents per province 4 Riots 441 40 68 Violence against civilians 408 239 315 Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 5854 1109 2715 Disclaimer 7 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 12 March 2021). Development of conflict incidents from 2016 to 2020 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 12 March 2021). 2 IRAQ, YEAR 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 25 MARCH 2021 Methodology on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in which an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected be fully excluded. African and Asian countries, Iraq being among them. ACLED researchers collect event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- event type. tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, please see secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatal- ity data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict states to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook (2019), 10 April 2019a context to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/ number is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, ACLED_Codebook_2019FINAL_pbl.pdf etc.). For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) User Quick Guide, April 2019b Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/04/ and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- General-User-Guide_FINAL.pdf lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: FAQs: ACLED Fatality It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. Methodology, 27 January 2020 https://www.acleddata.com/download/17979/ Assessments of the security situation should not be based solely on quantitative analysis of event data. Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. Incidents are mapped to GADM provinces using the provinces in ACLED data. Province names and borders may differ between ACLED and GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending 3 IRAQ, YEAR 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 25 MARCH 2021 Conflict incidents per province type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be used Number of if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names of Number of Number of Province incidents with event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names are incidents fatalities fatalities taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Al-Anbar 213 71 187 Al-Basrah 532 47 57 In Al-Anbar, 213 incidents killing 187 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ain Assad Air Base, Akashat, Al Ammari, Al Al-Muthannia 251 7 9 Baghdadi, Al Baghuz, Al Halabsa, Al Haqlaniyah, Al Hasa, Al Karabilah, Al Al-Qadisiyah 272 7 7 Kasrat al Qadimah, Al Mashkan, Al Muhammadi, Al Nathirah, Al Nukhib, Al An-Najaf 81 4 15 Qaim, Al Waleed Border Crossing, Albu Ali Jassim, Albu Faraj, Alsawar, An Arbil 498 93 343 Nukhayb, Anah, Ar Rahhaliyah, Ar Rutba, At Tarabshah, Fallujah, Habbaniya, As-Sulaymaniyah 185 26 46 Haditha, Haditha Dam, Hit, Karma, Kilo 35, Kilo Miat wa Sittin, Kubaysah, Makr Al-Nuam, Mintaqat Albu Shihab, Nahiyat al Amiriyah, Qaryat al At-Ta’mim (Kirkuk) 294 107 235 Habbariyah, Qaryat ash Shihah, Ramadi, Rawah, Tall Al Jurayshi, Tharthar, Babil 95 12 20 Wadi Hauran, Wadi al Ghadf, Zawiyah. Baghdad 595 103 176 Dhi-Qar 519 38 65 In Al-Basrah, 532 incidents killing 57 people were reported. The following Dihok 850 177 565 locations were among the affected: Abu Sakhr, Abu al-Khaseeb, Al Burjisiyah, Diyala 543 198 342 Al Huwayr, Al Jubaylah, Al Majidiyah, Al Midaina, Al Nashwa, Al Qiblah, Al Tanumah, Al Tuba wa al Nakhilah, Al-Faw, Al-Hartha, Al-Zubair, Ar Ramilah, Karbala’ 77 10 12 Ar Rumaylah, As Saybah, Ash Shuaybah, Basrah, Basrah International Maysan 122 20 24 Airport, Karmat Ali, Khor al Zubair, Majnoon Oil Field, Nahiyat ad Dayr, Ninawa 222 64 198 Qaryat ash Shafi, Qurna, Rumaylah Oil Field, Safwan, Shilamjah Border Sala ad-Din 294 119 406 Crossing, Umm Qasr, Uwaysan, West Qurna 1 Oilfield. Wasit 211 6 8 In Al-Muthannia, 251 incidents killing 9 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ad Darraji, Al Khidr, Al Majd, Al Najmi, Al Localization of conflict incidents Tawba, Al Warka, Al-Hilal, As Salman, As Samawah, As Suwayr, Huwayshali, Qaryat al Mamlahah, Rumaitha, Sayyed Jabar. Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event In Al-Qadisiyah, 272 incidents killing 7 people were reported. The following 4 IRAQ, YEAR 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 25 MARCH 2021 locations were among the affected: Afak, Al Budayr, As Sinniyah, Riyad, Nahiyat az Zab, Qariyat Mahmoudiyah, Qaryat Adhirban, Qaryat Al Ash-Shinafiyah, Diwaniya, Hamza, Nahiyat Al Shafiyah, Nahiyat Ghammas, Kathahiyah, Qaryat Albu Sibah, Qaryat Ghaydah, Qaryat Mahuz, Qaryat Nahiyat Sumir, Nahiyat ad Dagharah, Shamiya. Tall adh Dhahab al Ulya, Qaryat Tamur, Qaryat Tar al Baghal, Qaryat Tuwayliah, Qaryat ad Dubb al Kabir, Qaryat al Kazimiyah, Qaryat al Maftul, In An-Najaf, 81 incidents killing 15 people were reported. The following locations Qaryat al Mansuriyah, Qaryat al Maqam, Qaryat an Nakar, Qaryat as were among the affected: Al Mishkhab, Hayy Al Thwarah, Kufa, Manathera, Saduniyah, Qizil Yar, Qutan, Rahima Quta, Rashad, Saqizli, Shay Valley, Nahiyat al Abbasiyah, Najaf. Talaa Dihn al -Thaniya, Tarkalan, Taza, Topzawa, Tuwayriyah, Wadi Abu Shahmah, Wadi Zaghaytun, Wadi al Karha, Zerga. In Arbil, 498 incidents killing 343 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Alanah, Alane, Balaban, Balkanah, Barbazin, In Babil, 95 incidents killing 20 people were reported. The following locations Barsrin, Barzan, Bawlay, Berikma, Bine Rashkin, Bnparez, Choman, Erbil, were among the affected: Al Hamza, Al Qasim, Hilla, Jabla al Imam, Jurf Al Erbil International Airport, Garawan, Goshina, Hajj Umran, Halgurd Nasr, Mahawil, Musayab, Nahiyat Abi Gharaq, Nahiyat Jurf as Sakhr, Mountain, Harir, Jabal Biradawst, Jabal Sibi, Kelashin, Ketine, Khalifan, Nahiyat an Nil, Qaryat ar Ruiyah, Shomeli. Kharabah, Khinayrah, Koisnjaq, Kudila, Layl Kan, Lolan, Mahana, Makhmur, Mawnan, Merga Rash, Mergasur, Naw Mergan, Nawende, Pendro, Pirde In Baghdad, 595 incidents killing 176 people were reported. The following Shal, Qalata Soran, Qarachogh Mountain, Qarachoq Mountain, Qaraj, locations were among the affected: Abu Ghraib, Al Ghuzayliyah, Al Latifiyah, Rawst, Ruala, Rubar-i Rost, Sarkaran, Senan, Sidakan, Silsilat Jibal Qandil, Al Mahmudiyah, Al Moshahda, Al Mushahidah, Al Wahdah, Al Yusufiyah, Ar Similan, Soran, Stune, Talan, Wadi Armush, Wadi Khakurik, Warte. Rashidiyah, Ash Shulah, At Tarmiyah,