Iraq begins border fence with Syria to block ISIS extremists
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Iraqi forces and members of the PMU militias advance toward the city of al-Qaim,
in Iraq's western Anbar province near the Syrian border. (File photo: AFP)
Iraq has begun building a fence along its border with Syria to stop ISIS extremists crossing into the country, a border guards spokesman said Sunday.
“Ten days ago we started to set up a barbed wire security fence with surveillance towers along the border with Syria,” said Anwar Hamid Nayef, spokesman in Iraq’s Anbar province.
The frontier barrier includes a six-metre-wide trench and involves thermal cameras and drones scanning the border for extremists attempting to cross from Syria.
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Border spokesman Nayef said that experts from Baghdad’s ministry of defense and an anti-ISIS coalition spearheaded by the United States would come “to evaluate the effectiveness of the fence”.
“If they approve the installations, we will continue along the whole border with Syria,” he said.
In a sign of the continuing menace it poses to Iraq, the bodies of eight captives executed by ISIS were this week found along a highway north of Baghdad.
even Iraq gets to have a border fence