The 38-year-old farmer was watering his maize in
the scrubby vastness of eastern Syria when four Black Hawk helicopters swooped
in low over the palm trees, heading from the border with Iraq formed by the
Euphrates River. |
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On Syrian-Iraqi border the only certainty is shelling at sundown
Ali Ahmed Shumar, head of immigration and passport
control at Abu Kamal on the Syrian Iraqi border does not have any details of the
extra patrols or how many new checkpoints have been built in recent months, but
he is sure of one thing. |
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