The Traibil border crossing between Jordan and Iraq is expected to reopen in four months, after Iraq's Cabinet awarded a tender to a security company to guard the main highway connecting Baghdad to the crossing border, the Jordan Times reported.
"The Iraqi Cabinet awarded a contract to a security firm to secure the road connecting Baghdad to Traibil," Safia Talib al-Suhail, Iraq’s ambassador to Jordan, told The Jordan Times recently.
"This is a major step towards reopening the crossing border," she said, adding that she expected it to bring trade exchange and commodities flow back to their former levels.
Iraq officially closed the Traibil border crossing in mid-2015.
The crossing connects Jordan to Iraq's Anbar province, home to pockets of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), which has recently received several blows and lost control in much of the land it used to control to the Iraqi forces.
