#21: Third postcard from Iraq

Views of Iraq

Voting stamps

Received from David from Dublin, Ireland. Please check out David's amazing blog and adventures here.

During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the words “Allah Akbar,” meaning “God is great,” were added to the Iraqi flag.

#125: Second postcard from Iraqi Kurdistan

Buildings in Erbil?

Kurdistani and Iraqi stamps

Received from Oliver from Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The Tigris and the Euphrates begin in Kurdistan.

#21: Second postcard from Iraq

Nimrud - Nineveh

The Ziggurat of Ur

Received from Milad from Baghdad.

See this article in the "Daily Fail" for research on the origins of ethnic Britons. I never would have thought Iraq and Syria.

#125: First postcard from Iraqi Kurdistan

Architecture (of Erbil?)

Monument stamps

Received from Oliver from Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

Iraqi Kurdistan is an autonomous region of northern Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south.

#21: First postcard from Iraq

Greetings from Iraq

The Ziggurat of Ur stamp

Received from Milad from Iraq.

Iraq borders Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Jordan to the west, Saudi Arabia to the south and southwest,  and the northern Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the south.