Iraqi and Syrian authorities reopened the Al-Qaim-Albukamal border crossing between the two countries for trade and individuals, five years after it was closed due to ISIS control in 2014.
The first trucks crossed Monday from the port, which is the only one currently under the control of Iraqi and Syrian authorities.
The Iraqi border outlets for the island said that the port, which is located in the city of Anbar (western Iraq) will be opened to commercial traffic and transport of passengers between the two countries, and revealed to the island of efforts to rehabilitate and open other joint border outlets, including Al-Waleed port in Anbar province as well.
The other border crossings along the Iraqi-Syrian border, most of which are located in desert and mountainous areas, fall within the control of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the self-administered Syrian Kurds in their country.
The Qaim district, which lies in the far west of the desert province of Anbar, which extends to the borders of Baghdad, has long been a smuggling area, where tribes live on both sides of the border.
Iraqi forces retook the port of Qaim and Anbar province completely from ISIS in November 2017, and the government announced in March that it had completed repairing the infrastructure of the Qaim border crossing.