Bridge Name: | Semalka Border Crossing |
Official Name: | Semalka Border Crossing |
Carries: | Pedestrians, vehicles, containers |
Locale: | Khanik, Syria Faysh Khabur, Kurdistan Region |
Coordinates: | 37.0893°N 42.3499°W |
Maint: | |
Website: | http://semalka.com/ |
Semalka Border Crossing (ar|معبر سيمالكا الحدودي; ku|Deriyê Sêmalka), is a border crossing established between the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria during the Syrian Civil War about 1 km downstream from the Iraqi–Syrian–Turkish tripoint and just north of Faysh Khabur in Iraq and Khanik in Syria consisting of a pontoon bridge across the Tigris.The border crossing has been intermittently closed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), but has been open permanently since June 2016,[1] [2] and economic exchange has since then begun to normalize between Northeastern Syria and the Kurdistan Region.