{"id":73820,"date":"2022-03-06T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=73820"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T18:01:29","slug":"al-bukamal-border-crossing-is-open-iraqi-crossing-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/73820\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Bukamal border crossing is open: Iraqi crossing official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ERBIL, Iraq (North Press)<\/strong> &#8211; The spokesman for the Iraqi border crossings, Alaa al-Din al-Qaisi, denied on Sunday the closure of&nbsp; al-Qaim-al-Bukamal border crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crossing is operating as usual, and there no intention to be closed, al-Qaisi told North Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today, Syrian opposition websites said that the Syrian government closed al-Bukamal border crossing with Iraq and prevented the entry and exit of freight and goods trucks to Syria and vice versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said that the closure of the crossing came one day after a Russian military delegation visited the crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Iraqi side, al-Bukamal crossing is called Husaybah border crossing, and it is located in al-Qaim District in Anbar Governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The border crossing which links the capitals of Iraq and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>&nbsp;was reopened five years after it was seized by ISIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Bukamal crossing had been out of the control of the Syrian government since mid-2012 after the opposition factions took control of the city, and in mid-June 2014, ISIS took control of the city and removed the border between Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 19, 2017, the Syrian government forces regained control of the city of al-Bukamal and its surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Hozan Zubeir<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi officials say that al-Bukamal border crossing with Iraq is open, and commercial traffic between #Syria and #Iraq continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":73821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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