SHAFAQNA – Press TV: The reopening of the al-Qa’im border crossing with Syria has been approved by Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to manage the security of the region.
The Iraqi state news agency INA quoted the Arab country’s border agency chief as saying that the crossing will be opened for travelers and trade on Monday.
The crossing, which connects the town of al-Qa’im in Iraq’s Anbar Province to the Syrian city of Bukamal in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr Province, was closed in 2013 to support Iraqi forces in their fight against al-Qaeda militants and later Daesh terrorists.
Al-Qa’im and Bukamal lie on a strategic supply route and the crossing between them had only been open to government or military traffic.
The planned opening of the border crossing comes at a time that both Syrian and Iraqi governments have mostly purged their countries of Takfiri terrorist outfits.
In October 2018, the Nassib crossing border crossing between Jordan and Syria opened to people and goods after being closed for three years.
In recent weeks, however, Israel has launched attacks on the pro-government Iraqi military force Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), or Hashd al-Sha’abi, which has been protecting the Arab country’s border from infiltration attempts by foreign-backed Syria Takfiri terrorists.
On Friday, sources in Iraq reported that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) struck targets within a base belonging to the Hashd al-Sha’abi on the Syrian border.
Similar attacks have been reported in Bukamal, where members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah are allegedly helping the Syrian army to secure the crossing and its surrounding areas.
The Israeli attacks are considered an attempt by the regime to prop up Takfiri terrorist outfits that have been suffering heavy defeats in the region.
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