Iraq: Displacement - Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 28 August 2014) 1 SITUATION OVERVIEW TURKEY DISPLACEMENT As a result of massive displacement DAHUK estimated displaced to northern Iraq since 3 August, the 1.8 M since 1 Jan 2014 United Nations has increased its Mosul Estimated displaced by destination planning number of people displaced (in thousands) in Iraq to 1.8 million. This is an ERBIL Dahuk increase of 250,000 from the 520.4 NINEWA previous planning figure of 1.2 SYRIA Anbar 370.4 million. The IDP number does not SULAYMANIYAH KIRKUK IRAN Erbil 184.0 include people displaced in Iraq SALAH AL-DIN before 2014, nor does it include the Kirkuk DIYALA 128.0 225,000 Syrian refugees in northern Samarra Iraq. Population movement to Erbil Baghdad 109.1 and Dahuk governorates (Kurdistan Ba`aqubah Sulaymaniyah 95.2 Region) has been stabilizing. Local ANBAR Ramadi authorities in Dahuk report that there BAGHDAD Ninewa 90.3 are now over 400,000 IDPs in the Governorate. Displacement from KERBALA WASSIT Najaf 74.7 JORDAN Kut Ninewa and Anbar continues to Hilla BABYLON Kerbala 60.3 central and southern governorates Diwaniya MISSAN (Kerbala, Najaf, Qaddisiya, Diyala 58.4 Baghdad, Basra), where local QADISSIYA Amarah Salah al-Din 38.3 authorities are overstretched and Accessible Area Samawah THI-QAR NAJAF unable to respond to increasing Extremely Difficult Access Nassriyah Wassit 22.8 demands in basic services. Some Access Constraints MUTHANNA Babylon 16.5 520,000 IDPs 2 DISPLACEMENT SINCE 9 JUNE BASRAH Qadissiya 13.4 DAHUK 250,000 Thi-Qar 6.4 Mosul 100,000 ERBIL SULAYMANIYAH SAUDI ARABIA KUWAIT Missan 4.5 NINEWA Tikrit Muthanna 3.6 Samarra DIYALA Ramadi 3 Basrah 3.5 Fallujah Baghdad TIMELINE OF EVENTS ANBAR January March KERBALA MISSAN July Approximately people Intense fighting centred in Anbar Governorate QADISSIYA 85,000 Access to basic services are internally displaced due to cities of Fallujah and Ramadi increases the in areas controlled by armed NAJAF IDP displaced - 9 Jun THI-QAR fighting in Anbar Governorate. number of IDPs to 380,000. groups deteriorating. to 18 Aug 2014 (Families) BASRAH MUTHANNA 1 - 600 601 - 3,000 3,001 - 6,840 August February June The conflict increases the number Violence in northern Iraq and Continued fighting increases the number of IDPs from Anbar to 550,000 several regions of the country of IDPs) to approximately 140,000. and from central and northern has resulted in an increase in parts of Iraq to 650,000. the number of displaced Iraqis. The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. The data for this map has a limited number of sources, including parties to the conflict. The data has not been independently verified and is subject to error or omission, deliberate or otherwise by the various sources. Due to the fluidity of the conflict, control status is likely to change. Creation date: 28 Aug 2014 Sources: 1. Iraq Humanitarian Country Team 2. IOM DTM 3. UNOCHA, UNHCR Feedback: [email protected] iraq.humanitarianresponse.info www.reliefweb.int.