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Karameh Border Crossing

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Opened
  
4 November 1991

Location
  
Ruwaished

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Carries
  
Pedestrians, Vehicles, Containers

Locale
  
Ruwaished, Jordan Turaibil, Iraq

Official name
  
Karameh Border Crossing (in Jordan) Turaibil Border Complex (in Iraq)

Maintained by
  
Jordanian Borders and Residence Department Anbar Governorate Authority

Daily traffic
  
2192 pedestrians in 2010

Similar
  
Nasib Border Crossing, Jordan River Crossing, Jordan Gate Towers, Allenby Bridge

Karameh Border Crossing (Arabic: مركز حدود الكرامة) is the only border crossing between Jordan and Iraq. On the Iraqi side it is called the Turaibil Border Compound (Arabic: مجمع طريبيل الحدودي). The crossing served about 800,000 passengers in the year 2010 according to Al-Arab Al-Yawm newspaper. It connects the Jordanian town of Ruwaished to the Iraqi town of Turaibil.

The border crossing is about 320 km (199 miles) from Jordan's capital Amman and 575 km (357 miles) from the Iraqi capital Baghdad. On 22 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant assaulted the border crossing and clashed with the Iraqi Army in an attempt to capture the crossing.

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Karameh Border Crossing Wikipedia