Shafaq News/ Iraqi security forces caught a group of Syrian nationals attempting to enter the Iraqi territory from Syria today.

According to a statement of the Security Media Cell (SMC), the Intelligence Department of the 15th division identified via thermographic cameras a group of eight attempting to cross the Iraqi-Syrian borders west Nineveh.

"Consequently, a force from the Military Intelligence of the 15th Division and a land force from the 2nd regiment of the 71st Infantry Brigade, set an ambush to the infiltrators and arrested them as soon as they crossed the borders."