"It has been fully controlled, and there will be no future infiltration into Iraqi territory," Iraqi border guards chief Hamid al-Husseini said during a tour of the border.

A statement by al-Nujabaa movement, affiliated to the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), said troops were able to liberate villages of Um al-Raheel, abu Khashaba and Berket al-Miyah, in addition to wide parts of the southeastern desert in Syria.

PMUs officials say the target behind expanding the control of borders is to prevent infiltration of of Daesh elements from Syria to Iraq.

The Iraqi-Syrian border has been an obsession to Baghdad for years, where it was a port for al-Qaeda terrorist fighters to flow in the past, and later the militants Takfiri organization.

Previously, the troops liberated the remaining villages in the vicinity of Qairawan, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, and Baaj, after the troops announced full liberation of Qairawan.

The group has been actively engaged in the Iraqi government’s war against IS, and has recently claimed full control over Iraq’s borders with Syria, but has been operating only on ground with air support from the Iraqi army warplanes

Between mid-2014 and mid-2016, the Iraqi border from Mosul to Anbar was controlled by ISIS Takfiri, after the withdrawal of border protection forces after a Saudi breakthrough.