Iraqi border guards have uncovered and destroyed nearly a dozen long tunnels apparently used by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group to sneak through the desert areas of the country’s western province of Anbar into Dayr al-Zawr province in neighboring Syria.
Iraqi border guards have uncovered and destroyed nearly a dozen long tunnels apparently used by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group to sneak through the desert areas of the country’s western province of Anbar into Dayr al-Zawr province in neighboring Syria.
A military source, requesting not to be named, said on Wednesday that government troops had found the tunnels over the past two weeks, adding that one of them was nearly three kilometers long and allowed the extremists to pass through it without having to crawl or bend, Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network reported.
The source added that Iraqi border forces also managed to thwart three attempts by Daesh Takfiris as they were trying to infiltrate into the country, exchanging heavy gunfire with the terrorists.
Scores of the militants were killed and injured in the process.
