By the 19th century, the tribal map of Iraq was filled out by other powerful confederations and tribes, including the Shammar, the ’Anaza, the Bani Tamim, and the Zafir.

Some Sunni tribes in Syria and Iraq, driven from their ancient lands by Islamic State (IS), are planning their return in a post-IS scenario. VOA has learned that dozens of tribes, whose ancestors ...

This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian land and northern Iraqi ground in its first effort. A later expansion under Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1500s captured the rest of Iraq.

TAJI, Iraq — At the height of sectarian fighting here in the summer of 2006, Sunni tribesman surrounded a house in an isolated Shiite village being wiped off the map. According to U.S ...

THE big maps on the walls of the sprawling American base known as Camp Victory, next to Baghdad's main airport, show Iraq as a country divided into parts more or less dominated by either Sunni or ...

Iraq conflict in maps * Just two years after the withdrawal of US troops, Iraq has again been plunged into sectarian-fuelled violence and chaos.

13 March 2014 In offices above busy commercial streets here in the Jordanian capital, Iraqi tribal and religious leaders are plotting a revolution in their own country," The Washington Post said in ...

Al-Qaeda in Iraq recognized its failures and has attempted to rebuild ties to the tribes and the Sunni insurgent groups. In February, al Qaeda in Iraq created the Mujahideen Shura in an attempt to ...

Iraq. Click map to view. The 25 tribes of the Anbar Salvation Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq have been battling it out since the tribes have committed to work with the Iraqi government and U.S. military ...