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| Iraq closes border crossing with Jordan until further notice |
| 2015-07-17 |
| [AlAhram] Iraq closed its border with Jordan until further notice, in part to deprive Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... A Jordanian government official confirmed the closure of the Trebil crossing between Jordan and Iraq. The closure dealt a new blow to Jordan's fragile economy which has suffered from the spillover of Islamic State land grabs in neighboring Iraq and Syria since the summer of 2014. In the spring, Jordan closed its only trade crossing with Syria after Islamic In Iraq, the Islamic State group controls large areas between Trebil and the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in the country's Anbar province. Earlier this week, Iraq launched a large-scale military offensive to try to dislodge the Islamic State group from Anbar. Brig. Gen. Saad Maan, a front man for Iraq's Joint Operations Command, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Thursday that authorities have closed Trebil until further notice. Maan noted that the IS group has been imposing taxes on the goods crossing areas under its control. He said the crossing will reopen when the security situation improves. Traffic on the Jordanian-Iraqi border had been disrupted even before the closure announcement. Jordan, meanwhile, urged drivers not to head to the Iraqi border. |
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