The military forces are close to completing the fortification of the border with Syria with trenches

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[size=52]The military forces are close to completing the fortification of the border with Syria with trenches and wires[/size]

[size=45]The Iraqi forces continue their work on the border with Syria, as part of an integrated plan to secure the hotspot, while they have finished building a concrete barrier at the western border with Syria, in an area where ISIS terrorist cells are still active.[/size]
[size=45]Over the past years, the borders of the two countries have turned into one of the centers of regional danger, where undisciplined forces and armed factions are deployed on both sides, in addition to the presence of armies belonging to major foreign powers, global and regional, such as the United States and Russia, without mechanisms to ensure that there is no collision between the two countries. those powers.[/size]
[size=45]A few days ago, Agence France-Presse quoted an Iraqi military source as saying that "the Joint Operations Command succeeded in erecting a concrete barrier in Nineveh Governorate on the border with Syria in the Sinjar Mountain area, as this barrier aims to block the way for ISIS infiltration." He explained that "security forces have been deployed behind this berm, which is three and a half meters high, and extends over a range of about ten kilometers."[/size]
[size=45]This development, according to the security expert, Fadel Abu Ragheef, "will bring about a major development, in the field of protecting the Iraqi borders, and it may reach 95%, in securing those areas, especially in light of the development of new roads, including the barbed wire, the bellows, the quadruple." And also, an earthen ditch, three meters deep in length, and the same in width, in addition to the tall and high earthen dams, culminating in the giant wall (T-wall).[/size]
[size=45]Abu Ragheef added, in a statement to Al-Mada, that "the new plan also included international monitoring with drones and high-resolution sensitive cameras, which means that extremist groups, or smugglers, and infiltrators cannot infiltrate the Iraqi interior, even if they come at night." .[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the handover of these places by the border guards for the first time will also be a development, and contribute to limiting the possibility of infiltrators entering Iraq." With the escape of ISIS elements from Ghweran prison in January, the border guards were mobilized to prevent the infiltration of ISIS elements into the country, as part of a broad plan, launched by the Iraqi government last year, to secure the border area.[/size]
[size=45]The border between Iraq and Syria extends for more than 600 km, and is linked to a deep desert that extends from Hasaka in the east, to the eastern countryside of Homs, and meets it on the Iraqi side, Mosul and Anbar.[/size]
[size=45]The terrorist organization “ISIS” established, during its control over these areas, in 2014, networks, roads and tunnels for smuggling weapons in various villages of the region. It still retains thousands of items between the two.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, "The Iraqi authorities continue operations to fortify their western borders with Syria from the western side of Iraq, opposite the governorates of Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor."[/size]
[size=45]The observatory added in a statement that "the Iraqi forces started building a concrete wall, starting from the Sinjar district, opposite the Syrian lands, east of the city of Al-Shaddadi in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, provided that the wall extends to the entire border." The period of the security situation in that hot spot dates back to after the previous regime, when the Syrian-Iraqi border turned into a gateway for thousands of militants, from all over the world, to fight the Americans. Specialists believe that securing the Iraqi-Syrian borders was not ideal during the past years, as it relies on barbed wire, erecting security barriers, and distant military sites, as well as adopting old military mechanisms of action, which cannot face the development in smuggling, which It is adopted by these groups.[/size]
[size=45]However, an officer in the Border Police confirmed that “the situation now is radically different, as a modern mechanism was adopted about a year ago, and the security forces began implementing it, and it is represented by erecting a concrete security fence, from the barriers that are brought from other areas, or are manufactured near the border areas. A sum of 15 billion dinars was allocated to the border guards to implement parts of the plan.[/size]
[size=45]The officer, who refused to reveal his name, added to (Al-Mada), that "the large concrete barriers represent the most important defensive barrier, and extremist organizations are unable to cross them, whether as individuals or groups, in addition to the impossibility of crossing vehicles and others, which represents a major development, which may be witnessed in that region." for the first time". He pointed out that "the main goal of preserving the borders is to prevent the infiltration of ISIS elements, as we have witnessed during the past period several attempts, in addition to preventing smuggling such as drugs, and infiltration into the country." A United Nations report published in February indicated that "ISIS maintains a large secret presence in Iraq and Syria, and is waging a continuous insurgency on both sides of the border between the two countries as it extends over the territories it previously controlled."[/size]
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