According to local officials, Daesh has seized the Iraqi side of a border crossing with Syria after government troops pulled out, reports AFP.
"Daesh early this morning took control of the Al-Walid post on the border between Iraq and Syria after the withdrawal of the army and the Iraqi border police," a police colonel told AFP.
Three days prior, the Syrian side of the same border crossing was also taken by Daesh, leaving military forces on the Iraqi side vulnerable to attacks.
"There was no military support for the security forces and there weren't enough of them to protect the crossing," Suad Jassem, the head of Anbar's border commission, said.
Now the militants have full control of the crossing.
The militants declared achieving a "caliphate" across borders in the territory they control in Syria and Iraq.
