(19 Dec 2024)
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Al-Qaim border, Anbar, Iraq – 19 December 2024
1. Various of Syrian rebels gathering at al Qaim border gate with Iraq
STORYLINE:
A group of Syrian rebels arrived at the Al-Qaim border gate with Iraq on Tuesday morning.
The deployment came after the Iraqi authorities started to open the border for travelers and trade between the two countries.
Iraqi authorities will begin Thursday to return thousands of former Syrian army soldiers who fled their country, officials said.
Brig. Gen. Muqdad Miri, spokesperson for the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Security Media Cell, said in a statement that after coordinating the work with the concerned Syrian authorities, the soldiers would be returned to Syria via the Al-Qaim border crossing.
Previously a local militia official in western Iraq told the Associated Press that more than 4,000 former Syrian army soldiers had crossed into Iraq after rebel forces in Syria reached Damascus and overthrew the government of Bashar Assad.
The official with the Anbar Tribal Mobilization Forces said the soldiers had turned over their weapons, ammunition and armored vehicles and would be housed in a camp.
The Iraqi government has close ties with Iran, which was formerly one of the primary backers of Assad’s government, but Baghdad has now sought to build ties with the new Syrian government.
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