Al Jazerra has released a written report into the displacement of minority groups inward Republic of Iraq caused past times the country's civil state of war too the rising of ISIS. Included inward the written report is an Odyssey.js powered interactive map, Timeline: Iraq's Minorities Forced to Flee.
The map uses information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees too the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to supply a timeline highlighting roughly of the primary incidents where Iraqi minority groups accept been forced to flee their homes. The map provides a chronlogical timeline of roughly of the major occurrences which accept led to the displacement of Shia, Christian, Shabak too Yazidis Iraqis.
A Rogue State Along Two Rivers is a New York Times interactive which explore the rising of ISIS past times next the paths of the Tigris too Euphrates Rivers. The interactive stitches together a serial of aerial images of both rivers to practise a linear narrative equally you lot scroll downwardly the page.
Obviously at that topographic point is a danger alongside this form of linear narrative that the medium becomes the whole message. Any ISIS related intelligence stories which tumble out roughly distance from the 2 rivers are non going to arrive to the map. However the fact that urban settlements inward northern too western Republic of Iraq grew-up along the 2 rivers agency that this linear flat of narrative industrial plant really good inward exploring the rising of ISIS inward Iraq.
As you lot scroll downwardly either river, overlays explicate the province of affairs inward towns too cities, oftentimes alongside links to fuller reports inward the New York Times. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 little map inset tracks your progress equally you lot scroll downwardly the river too a little window overlay reports the unwrap of miles remaining until the river reaches Baghdad.
