Iraq, Syria discuss securing border as ISIS retreats
BAGHDAD- Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held talks on Thursday with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem about securing their common border, an official Iraqi statement said, after a partial retreat by ISIS militants.
This year the jihadist group has lost about half the land it seized in 2014 and 2015 in Iraq but it remains in control of territory on both sides of the northwestern border with Syria.
Abadi is hoping to take back Mosul, the largest Iraqi city under ISIS control, effectively defeating the group in Iraq.
