(12 Dec 2024)
IRAQ SYRIA BORDER
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Al-Qaim Border Gate – Anbar province, Iraq – 12 December 2024
1. Iraqi military vehicles at al-Qaim border gate
2. Various of armored vehicles parked at gate
3. Syrian man trying to cross border to Syria
4. Border gate between Iraq and Syria
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousuf Qassar, Syrian returning home in Syria:
"There was conscription for us, and we couldn’t go back. Now, the regime is down, and there is no army, so we are returning to our country. We won’t stay outside. It has been a year since we left our country. We’ve just finished our residency paperwork, and everything is in order. We left legally and are now entering Syria officially."
6. Various of trucks crossing border between Iraq and Syria
7. Bashar Assad’s poster on Syrian side
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulsalam (no second name given), Syrian returning to Syria:
"I am a Syrian residing in Baghdad, Iraq, and it has been one year and eight months since I left. The situation was good. All those who left Syria through the Albu Kamal gate can return, but they need to sort out their paperwork and fines in Baghdad. The situation is good."
9. Border gate between Iraq and Syria, with armored vehicles in place
10. Various of Iraqi armored vehicles by Syrian border
STORYLINE:
The Iraqi army brought reinforcement to the Iraqi-Syrian borders at al Qaim gate in Anbar province, following the fall of Bashar Assad’s government.
The army deployed armored vehicles and Humvees along the border, where just a few passengers and trucks were crossing.
"There was conscription for us, and we couldn’t go back. Now, the regime is down, and there is no army, so we are returning to our country," said Yousuf Qassar, a Syrian citizen who is returning home to Syria.
In the Syrian side, the poster of former President Bashar Assad remained, facing those returning home.
Abdulsalam, a Syrian man returning home after nearly two years in Iraq and who declined to give his last name, said that everyone who left Syria through the Albu Kamal gate is allowed to return, but they must settle paperwork and fines in Baghdad.
The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
Syria’s nearly 14-year civil war killed almost half a million people and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million, becoming a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
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