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Alleged transit of fighters from Syria to Iraq slows

lleged infiltration of foreign militants into Iraq through Syria appears to have dramatically slowed down, according to US military officers on the Iraqi-Syrian border. In spite of continued allegations from Washington, officials that Damascus is continuing to support the infiltration of jihadis into Iraq, the American commander in the northern border region says that in more than 130 detentions of smugglers by his troops along the border in the past 9 months, “we did not find one foreign fighter”. Full Story