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Iraqi forces arrest Syrian 'infiltrators' at border

Iraq announced a similar incident late last year.
MUJAHED MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images

Iraqi forces arrested several people who allegedly attempted to enter the country illegally via the Syrian border today.

Iraq’s Security Media Cell said 62 “infiltrators” of Syrian nationality were arrested. The Iraqi border guard and the Kurdistan Region’s peshmerga forces conducted the arrests, the cell said in a statement. The security body did not specify where exactly the incident occurred.

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