the region near the tripoint border with Jordan and Iraq is still under the authority of the Al-Tanf Deconfliction zone, named after the U.S. base established in 2016 amid the Syrian Civil War.

Iraq is severely affected by mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) as a result of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, two decades of internal conflict, and even World War Two.