>>509355758 (OP)it's split by the Euphrates and Tigris river like Syria is, Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south. they don't really talk to each other much.
what people don't expect is that Baghdad is laid out like a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere desert due to the Persian influence, not some giant metropolis like Cairo or Dubai that everyone seems to think it should be. closest comparison would be like Phoenix or Dallas or something. nothing ever happens there even during the war.