{"id":10121,"date":"2019-10-01T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10121"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:32:54","slug":"iraq-reopens-border-crossing-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10121","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Reopens Border Crossing with Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq on Monday reopened the\u00a0 Al- Qaim border crossing with war-torn Syria after a six-year closure.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of this crossing, which links between the town of\u00a0 Al- Qaim and the Syrian town of Boukamal, is expected to boost trade between the two neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe terminal was reopened for travellers and trade,\u201d Farhan Mohamed, member of the Anbar provincial council said.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian government TV showed military commanders from both the Syrian and Iraqi armies cutting a rope and shaking hands, smiling broadly as the border crossing at Albukamel was officially reopened to traffic Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The crossing between Albukamel and Al-Qaim, on the Iraqi side of the border, is one of three linking the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.-backed Kurdish forces control the northernmost crossing at al-Yaroubia, and other U.S.-backed Syrian forces control the southernmost crossing at Al-Tanf.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Tanf straddles the main highway between Damascus and Baghdad, which will ultimately link Tehran to Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaim, 360 kilometers west of Baghdad, was recaptured by the Iraqi forces from the Daesh terrorist group late 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq on Monday reopened the\u00a0 Al- Qaim border crossing with war-torn Syria after a six-year closure. The opening of this crossing, which links between the town of\u00a0 Al- Qaim and the Syrian town of Boukamal, is expected to boost trade between the two neighboring countries. \u201cThe terminal was reopened for travellers and trade,\u201d Farhan Mohamed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10123,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}