 In the mid-9th century, black slaves around Basra rose in a rebellion, conquering their former masters and ruling the city for 15 years before being put down by forces sent by the Caliph in Baghdad.After the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, Afro-Iraqis have once again begun to struggle for an improvement in their condition.Feylis are a distance ethnic Kurdish group who live near the Iraq-Iran border\ outside of Iraqi Kurdistan and are considered a stateless people.