Iraq sends reinforcements to border amid flare-up of fighting in Syria

Iraq has deployed reinforcements to the border with Syria amid renewed clashes Kurdish troops and Takfiri terrorists in the region.

Iraq has deployed reinforcements to the border with Syria amid renewed clashes Kurdish troops and Takfiri terrorists in the region.

Iraqi troops, including Hashd al-Sha’abi paramilitary forces, had been dispatched to the Syrian frontier as fears grow that Daesh terrorists could repeat the 2014 offensive.

The border build-up came as Daesh elements recently captured some territory from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed coalition of mainly Kurdish militants, around the city of Hajin in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr Province.

The Iraqi military said that two Iraqi army brigades, each with 3,000 to 5,000 troops, had been dispatched to border areas in a bid to prevent terrorists crossing over.

Hashd al-Sha’abi also announced the deployment of 20,000 fighters “to provide border security after some Syrian villages fell under the control of ISIS (Daesh).”