Semalka Border Crossing

Semalka Border Crossing
Coordinates 37.089323°N 42.349890°E / 37.089323; 42.349890
Carries Pedestrians, vehicles, containers
Locale Khanik, Syria
Faysh Khabur, Kurdistan Region
Official name Semalka Border Crossing
Maintained by Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Iraqi Kurdistan
Website semalka.com
Location

Semalka Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر سيمالكا الحدودي; Kurdish: 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.

Border crossing at Semalka between Iraq and Syria on the Tigris river for trading food, oil, electronics, and other goods.

The border crossing has been intermittently closed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), but has been open permanently since June 2016, and economic exchange has since then begun to normalize between Northeastern Syria and the Kurdistan Region.

See also