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Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) elements from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday (March 27).
In the “first stage” of construction, a wall about “a dozen kilometres long and 3.5 metres high was built in Ninawa province”, in the Sinjar area of northwest Iraq, a senior officer told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Sinjar is home to Iraq’s Yazidi population. When ISIS overran the area in 2014, its fighters abducted many Yazidi women and girls and took them across the border into Syria.
Iraq, which shares a more than 600km-long border with Syria, seeks to put a stop to the infiltration of ISIS elements into its territory, the source said, without specifying how long the wall would eventually run….
Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) elements from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday (March 27).
In the “first stage” of construction, a wall about “a dozen kilometres long and 3.5 metres high was built in Ninawa province”, in the Sinjar area of northwest Iraq, a senior officer told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Sinjar is home to Iraq’s Yazidi population. When ISIS overran the area in 2014, its fighters abducted many Yazidi women and girls and took them across the border into Syria.
Iraq, which shares a more than 600km-long border with Syria, seeks to put a stop to the infiltration of ISIS elements into its territory, the source said, without specifying how long the wall would eventually run….
