The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

To visit shrines | Shiites from Iraq enter Syrian lands

Deir Ezzor province: SOHR activists have monitored the entry of dozens of Shiites visitors in two buses to Ain Ali shrine in Al-Mayadin city in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside coming from Iraq, where they washed with the spring water for blessing and took pictures inside the shrine, before heading towards the highway between Damascus and Deir Ezzor in their buses.

On April 29, SOHR activists monitored the entrance of two buses carrying Shiites to Syrian territory coming from Iraq through Al-Bo Kamal crossing in Deir Ezzor countryside, where the visitors stopped for an hour in Ain Ali shrine in Al-Mayadin city and headed towards Damascus province.
This came in light of the infiltration by Iranian militias among the Syrian community.

On April 13, SOHR activists monitored the entrance of two buses carrying 55 Shiites from Iraq through Al-Bo Kamal border crossing, and headed towards Ain Ali site in Al-Mayadeen city, where visitors entered and washed with its water, took bottles of the well’s water for blessing and left. The buses took the road between Deir Ezzor and Damascus.
This came after the border crossing between Syria and Iraq was opened by coordination of Iraqi and regime forces.
On March 30, the mayor of the Iraqi Al-Qa’eim city announced that the priority for crossing is for visitors of shrines and for the religious tourism.