Britain and the United States Redraw the Map After the fall of the Ottoman ... of Iraq and its oil-rich regions where most of its Kurdish population lived. (photo: Lynette Soane, courtesy ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region accounts for 14 percent of Iraq's total population, according to the preliminary results of the recently-conducted nationwide census announced on Monday.

These maps help explain the offensive ... recognised permanent nation state of their own. Kurds make up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population. For decades, they were suppressed and denied ...