DR.Mustafa IbraheemIIE Visiting Scholar

ISIS and Urban dimensions

From this point, we are going to show ISIS’s spatial and urban dimensions

Stereotype has focused on how many people have killed by ISISbutwhat about citieshow many cities have been killing by ISIS?

Iraq spatial structure

Explosive barrels

CannonAirstrikes

Rocket launchers

Conflicting parties

ISIS+

Militia (Shia,Kurdish,Yazidi)

+Iraqi Government

+International Alliance

An internally displaced person

http://iomiraq.net/dtm-page

1200 neighborhoods300 districts

1200 elementary schools300 secondary schools

civic buildings= !

Source: https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/group/irq

Landmark

Destroyed more than 530 landmarks

Public buildings

More than 4500-5500 public buildings

Markets

They have destroyed more than 300 markets

more than 2500 housing blocks (neighborhoods)

Urban Fabric

https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/dataset/geodata-of-damage-assessment-of-ramadi-al-anbar-province-iraq-january-22-2015

Archeology sites

Infrastructures

870 government buildings

The largest oil refinery

543 factories

Transportation and Bridges

218 bridges 300 km Railroad

How many private cars

RESULTS

Dry marshes

Plunging cities

Widows = 70,000 women

Orphans = 230,000 Disabilities = 12500

Missing = 8500

Wounded = 45000

Do you know what are these points?

ISIS+

Militia+

Iraqi Government

Urban Genocide

References: http://www.epic-usa.org/humanitarian-crisis-overview-series-displacement/http://1001iraqithoughts.com/2015/01/26/are-sunnis-being-ethnically-cleansed-in-iraq/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/world/middleeast/iraqi-widows-numbers-have-grown-but-aid-lags.html?_r=0http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/190420151http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/544e4b3c4.pdfhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/12/humanitarian-and-human-rights-crisis-iraq-testimony-sarah-margon