An Example of How Easy it is for an ISIS Fighter to Reach Syria Through Turkey

An ISIS fighter captured by Syrian Kurds last month described how easy it was for him to cross Turkey’s notoriously porous border into Syria to join the Islamic State, according to a new video obtained byAl-Monitor.

ISIS lost a crucial “back door” into Turkey early last week when Kurdish forces ran the militants out of Tal Abyad, cutting off the terror army’s supply route for weapons, cash, and foreign fighters into Syria. Still, the militants have multiple “back doors” to Turkey and will likely try to open new supply lines in the coming weeks and months.

Successfully cutting off these supply lines could be the beginning of a strategy to cripple ISIS, but it would require action on both sides of the border.

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“The Turks have been less than cooperative,” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, told Business Insider. “The border between Turkey and Syria has remained incredibly loose.”

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