The report’s first chapter provides information on the security situation, including information on political developments in the country, the current security situation, impacts of the security situation on civilian population at national level. Sub-chapter 1.4 includes a governorate-level description of the security situation, except for the southern governorates and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq sub-chapters, where the information has been clustered. Each governorate chapter includes a brief description of the governorate, actors involved in the conflict, recent security trends, including information on civilian casualties, civilian infrastructure impacted and the existence of unexploded ordnances (UXO) and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW), as well as information on displacement and return.
This is followed by Chapter 2 which is divided into ten sub-chapters. First sub-chapter outlines the general human rights situation in the country. Each sub-chapter contains information on the general situation of selected groups of individuals or profiles within the
Iraqi society as well as their treatment by state, state-affiliated actors and non-state actors. For better readability, cross-links among the sub-chapters of the report are provided where information regarding one or more profiles overlaps with information related to other profiles covered in this report.
Thereafter, chapter 3 outlines the humanitarian and socio-economic situation, including updates on requirements needed to enter and settle in some governorates/cities, and the requirements needed to access civil documentation and services.
This report was jointly drafted by the EUAA Country of Origin Information (COI) Sector together with the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD).
The following departments and organisations reviewed this report:
• France, Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), Information, Documentation and Research Division (DIDR);
• Slovak Republic, Department of Documentation and Foreign Cooperation, Ministry of Interior;
• Sweden, Swedish Migration Agency, Country of Origin Information, section for Information Analysis.
The drafting of this report was finalised on 12 September 2025. Any event taking place after this date is not included in this report.
This report was written according to the EUAA COI Report Methodology (2023) and to the EUAA COI Writing and Referencing Style Guide (2023).
Politique de traitement
Depuis 2013, la situation sécuritaire dans la région a été largement déterminée par la montée de l'État islamique en Irak et en Syrie (EI) et par la lutte contre celui-ci. Le 9 décembre 2017, le premier ministre alors en fonction, M. al-Abadi, a annoncé que la dernière partie de la zone occupée par l'EI en territoire irakien avait été reprise, mettant ainsi fin à la guerre terrestre contre l'organisation terroriste. La victoire sur l’EI et la reconquête des zones occupées par l’organisation ont manifestement eu un impact positif et tangible sur les conditions de sécurité en Irak. Toutefois, les cellules de l’EI restent actives dans plusieurs provinces et les forces de sécurité irakiennes, les milices chiites et les peshmergas kurdes mènent toujours des opérations contre l’organisation. Cela se traduit par un niveau de violences, une échelle de la violence aveugle et un impact du conflit sur la population qui varient fortement d’une région à l’autre. Par ailleurs, dans le cadre du conflit avec le PKK, l’armée turque procède à des attaques aériennes et mène des opérations terrestres contre des cibles liées au PKK dans les zones frontalières du nord de l’Irak.