Al-Waleed border crossing ( ar, نقطة الوليد الحدودية العراقية, also spelled al-Walid), known in
Syria as al-Tanf, is one of three official border crossings between
Iraq
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and Syria. It is located in the
Ar-Rutba District
Ar-Rutba District ( ar, قضاء الرطبة) is the largest district by area in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, covering 93,445 km2, and the least populated in relative and absolute terms, with a population of 24,813 (estimate January 2003), o ...
of the
Al-Anbar Governorate
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in western Iraq, close to the northeasternmost point of
Jordan
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in the
Syrian Desert. It serves as the main border checkpoint on the highway between
Damascus and
Baghdad
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. The al-Tanf checkpoint is on the Syrian side of the border in the
Homs Governorate
Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographic ...
. The
Al-Waleed Palestinian refugee camp is nearby.
Syrian Civil War
In May 2015, the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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(ISIL) militants captured the checkpoint, thus obtaining control over the full length of the Iraq–Syria border. In early August 2016, the Iraqi checkpoint was recaptured by pro-government Iraqi tribal militias backed by the
U.S.-led forces. In August 2016, the
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which it said showed British special forces soldiers apparently guarding the perimeter of the
rebels re-opened the border point, resuming cross-border civilian traffic; a group referred to as Jaish al-Ashair al-Iraqi was said to control the Iraqi side of the crossing. In April 2017, the U.S. "special forces" outpost at Al-Tanf was reported to be engaged in combat. On 18 May 2017,
fighter jets struck a convoy of pro-Syrian government forces advancing towards the Tanf base, where the U.S. military operated and trained anti-government rebels. The Syrian forces appeared to use advanced Russia-made arms and were supported by Russian helicopters, a report acknowledged on May 26 by the
announced that the Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters, supported by U.S.-led coalition aircraft, had dislodged ISIL from the al-Waleed border crossing.
At the end of December 2017, the
at Al-Tanf was fully blocked by the Syrian government forces; he also claimed the U.S. was using the base as a training facility for ex-ISIL militants.