Iraq's Border Becomes New Fault Line in Syrian War
An ambush on the Iraq-Syria border that killed 62 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards has brought the Syrian civil war to Iraq, writes Mushreq Abbas.
Military clashes erupted earlier this month around the Rabia-Yaarabiya border crossing between Iraq and Syria.
Two days following this incident, armed groups that are believed to have infiltrated into Iraq from Syria attacked an Iraqi military convoy in Anbar.
According to the Iraqi army, armed groups that infiltrated into Iraq from Syria attacked an Iraqi military convoy, which included 70 fighters affiliated with the Syrian Army, who had fled from the Rabia-Yaarabiya crossing, seeking refuge in Iraq.
Iraqi forces had sought to transfer them to al-Walid border crossing to be returned to Syria when the military convoy was ambushed by armed groups, which killed and wounded 62 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards.
