{"id":85473,"date":"2014-05-14T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=85473"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T10:15:16","slug":"giant-11-mile-trench-is-dug-on-iraqi-border-with-syria-to-stop-islamic-militants-crossing-into-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=85473","title":{"rendered":"Giant 11-mile trench is dug on Iraqi border with Syria to stop Islamic militants crossing into the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cameron-sad_244903k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85462\" alt=\"cameron-sad_244903k\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cameron-sad_244903k.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cameron-sad_244903k.jpg 580w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cameron-sad_244903k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cameron-sad_244903k-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>A giant trench is being built on Iraq\u2019s border with Syria to prevent militants and smugglers passing into the country.<\/p>\n<p>The trench, the work of the Kurdistan Regional Government, is thought to be 11 miles (17 kilometres) long, two yards deep and three yards wide.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdggdZkxHpk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>It has been reported that smugglers have started to operate in the border areas as they became insecure with Syrian authorities losing control of them.<\/p>\n<p>The trench is on the northern Iraqi border near to Iraq\u2019s autonomous Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdistan has largely managed to insulate itself against the violence afflicting Syria and the rest of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>But the digging of the ditch has proved controversial with some political parties, who have described it as unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant trench is being built on Iraq\u2019s border with Syria to prevent militants and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}