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2022-03-28 Iraq
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Iraq builds wall along Syrian border to keep off ISIS fighters
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[Rudaw] Iraq is building a concrete wall along its border with Syria, a security official confirmed to AFP on Sunday as the hundreds of kilometers long border is mired by security threats due to attempted Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) infiltrations.
A wall around "a dozen kilometers long and 3.5 meters high" was built in Shingal in western Nineveh province in the "first stage" of construction, the bigwig told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The step aims to "put a stop to the infiltration" of ISIS into the Iraqi territory, the official added.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with a ground network in Syria on Sunday said "Iraqi forces have begun building a concrete wall along the entire border."
Iraq announced its intention to build a concrete wall and a military barrier along its border with Syria earlier in March.
"There is an intention to build a wall on the border, but the existing fortifications provide the necessary security," the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Operations Qais al-Mohammedawi said at the time.
Iraq shares an extensive border with Syria, one which spans over 600-kilometers. 
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