TIMELINE OF EVENTS
3February
Continued fighting increases the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to approximately 140,000.
January
Approximately 85,000 people are internally displaced due to fighting in Anbar Province.
March
Intense fighting centred in Anbar Province cities of Fallujah and Ramadi increases the number of IDPs to 380,000.
Late June
The conflict increases the number of IDPs to 700,000 in central Iraq and 500,000 in northern Iraq.
ANBAR NINEWA
ERBIL
SALAH AL-DIN DOHUK
DIYALA
MUTHANNA NAJAF
BASRAH WASSIT
MISSAN TAMEEM
QADISSIYA BABIL KERBALA
THI-QAR SULAYMANIYAH
Baghdad
SAUDI ARABIA TURKEY
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SYRIAN ARAB
REPUBLIC
KUWAIT
JORDAN
DISPLACEMENT BY DESTINATION
500,000 IDPs 250,000 100,000 ANBAR
NINEWA
ERBIL
SALAH AL-DIN DOHUK
DIYALA
MUTHANNA NAJAF
BASRAH WASSIT
MISSAN TAMEEM
QADISSIYA BABIL KERBALA
THI-QAR SULAYMANIYAH
Mosul Tall Afar
Anbar Baghdad Tikrit
Samarra
SAUDI ARABIA TURKEY
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SYRIAN ARAB
REPUBLIC
KUWAIT
JORDAN
DISPLACEMENT BY ORIGIN
500,000 IDPs Population movement
250,000 100,000
Sinjar
Newly displaced by destination1,2
DISPLACEMENT
1.2M
*Includes Salahudin, Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk, Kerbala, Babil, Najaf, Diyala and Qadissiya
newly displaced since Jan 2014
426,000 232,370 138,082 135,154 46,848
151,568 76,626
Others*
Unknown Baghdad Erbil Ninewa Dohuk
Anbar
A surge in violence between armed groups and Government forces has displaced over 1.2 million people in central and northern Iraq since January 2014. Violence has been most intense in Anbar Province, where approximately 700,000 people have been displaced by fighting centred on Fallujah and Ramadi. In June, armed groups took control of Iraq’s second city of Mosul, leading to the
displacement of over 500,000 people, many of whom fled with few or no resources.
The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
Creation date: 23 Jun 2014 Sources: 1. Ministry of Migration and Displacement Iraq, 2. ICODHA, 3. UNHCR Feedback: ochavisual@un.org www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int
