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Northern part of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Photo: The U.S. Army, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Northwestern Iraq (also known as Al-Jazira, Upper Mesopotamia, Assyria, Nineveh, or Ninawa) is a region largely between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the northwestern part of Iraq.
Border crossings
You can realize that you're entering Northwestern Iraq by the flags at the checkpoints. Know the difference between Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan flags.
You can fly using the Kirkuk international Airport. Fees from Kirkuk to Mosul usually are 46,000 IQD.
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A city located on the step of the Zagros Mountains in Iraq, it is the second oldest continuously inhabited city in Iraq After Erbil, It's also home to the Famous Kirkuk Castle which is often considered the oldest part of the city. It's nicknamed "small Iraq" due to its ethnic diversity of Kurds,Turkmens,Arabs and Assyrians.
The site of Nineveh, the Al-Nuri Mosque, and other sites, nearly all of which were destroyed during the conflict with ISIS.
A historic Christian town
Majority Kurdish city near the Syrian border.
a largely Iraqi Turkmen town, home to a large Ottoman-era fortress.
Tikrit is a town in the Al Jazira region of Iraq. It is best known for being the birthplace of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein and the Ayyubid Sultan, Saladin.
. Ruins of the former capital of the Assyrian Empire, the city was founded around 2500 BC and inhabited until the 14th century AD
archaeological , partially destroyed by ISIS in 2015.
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