Joint Ops.: Security gaps on Iraq's borders with Syria and Turkey are treated

INA - BAGHDAD 

Joint Operations Command announced on Saturday, treating the security gaps on the northern and western borders of Iraq, while revealing procedures to secure the borders with Syria, as it confirmed the approval of the Cabinet to allocate funds for concrete castings in some dangerous border areas.

"The Iraqi-Syrian border was secured and the gaps were treated by increasing the number of forces deployed there, as well as cameras and watchtowers, and the Cabinet agreed to allocate sums of money to make concrete castings in some  dangerous border areas,” said the spokesman for the joint operations, Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). 

 He added, "Work is ongoing to deploy a second defensive line on the border with Syria through the Iraqi army units, which also caught a defensive line behind the border forces command units," stressing that "the checkpoints, surveillance operations with cameras and thermal binoculars, as well as the completion of the barbed wire and the trench that operates the Ministry of Defense are ongoing, including Water Resources and the Popular Mobilization Forces Authority,”

”These measures were taken based on the directives and orders issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces," he noted.

Al-Khafaji stressed, "treating the gaps on the Iraqi-Turkish border that connects the Fishkhabur area in Dohuk to the Gilbarat area in Nineveh, as there is great cooperation between the joint operations and the Peshmerga forces,”