Lukman Sharawani, commander of a small unit of Kurdish fighters stationed north of Mosul, explained that Ninevah - his home province -was once one of the most diverse parts of Iraq.

Peters drew onto his map an independent Kurdistan and an abridged Turkey; he shrank Iran (handing over Khuzestan to an as-yet-imaginary Arab-Shiite state he carved out of what is now southern Iraq ...

More than 130,000 people, mostly Sunnis, fled central Iraq in 2014, counting just Baghdad's agricultural belt and northeastern Diyala province, the International Rescue Committee told Reuters.

Lukman Sharawani, commander of a small unit of Kurdish fighters stationed north of Mosul, explained that Ninevah - his home province -was once one of the most diverse parts of Iraq.