MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Iraqi border guards along the Iraqi-Syrian frontier have increased security measures to prevent Daesh terrorists from finding their way into the country, INA reported.
According to the INA news agency, Iraq is setting up defense structures along the border in the provinces of Nineveh and Anbar.
On Friday, a regional representative of Iraqi Kurdistan, which occupies a part of northern Iraq, said that up to 20,000 Daesh terrorists still remained in Iraq and Syria.
In early November, the U.S. news outlet NBC said that militants from the Daesh terrorist group, following their defeat in Syria, were moving across the border into northern Iraq to rebuild their forces there.
The terrorists received a powerful blow last month when Daesh ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in Idlib during a U.S. military operation. 
Iraq announced the defeat of the organization in late 2017, three years after it overran much of the country. By March 2019, Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, recaptured all the territories occupied by the terrorist group in Iraq.