{"id":20144,"date":"2025-01-24T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/isil-controlled-land-expands-within-syria-iraqi-fm-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:45:00","slug":"isil-controlled-land-expands-within-syria-iraqi-fm-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/isil-controlled-land-expands-within-syria-iraqi-fm-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIL-controlled land expands within Syria: Iraqi FM warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4659624.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Speaking during a panel discussion at the Davos forum, Hussein emphasized, \u201cISIL-controlled territory is expanding within Syria. The collapse of the Syrian army has allowed ISIL and other groups to seize more weapons, and intelligence indicates a surge in new recruits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister further stressed Iraq&#8217;s concerns about the proximity of ISIL to its borders, stating, \u201cISIL militants are stationed along our borders as well as the Jordanian border, which is a shared concern for us and our regional allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iraq remains wary of a repeat of 2014, when ISIL overran vast areas of the country amid the chaos of Syria&#8217;s civil war. Since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, Iraqi forces have intensified their presence along the 610-kilometer border with Syria, deploying security units across its expanse, according to Shafaq News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi security officials have assured that the border is \u201cfully secured\u201d through comprehensive deployment measures. Commanders have conducted field visits to monitor troop readiness and address potential vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227376\/ISIL-controlled-land-expands-within-Syria-Iraqi-FM-warns\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during a panel discussion at the Davos forum, Hussein emphasized, \u201cISIL-controlled territory is expanding within Syria. The collapse of the Syrian army has allowed ISIL and other groups to seize more weapons, and intelligence indicates a surge in new recruits.\u201d The minister further stressed Iraq&#8217;s concerns about the proximity of ISIL to its borders, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}