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The Breitbart news website published that Iraq has begun constructing a fence on its border with Syria to keep Islamic State jihadists from entering its territory, the country’s border guard’s spokesman revealed Sunday.
“Ten days ago, we started to set up a barbed wire security fence with surveillance towers along the border with Syria,” said border guard spokesman Anwar Hamid Nayef in Iraq’s Anbar province, adding that experts from Baghdad’s defense ministry and the U.S. would soon visit “to evaluate the effectiveness of the fence.”
The new 20-kilometer barrier will include a six-meter-wide trench, surveillance towers, and the use of thermal imaging technology to detect potential Islamists attempting to cross the border.
Source: The Breitbart News