Jordan has announced that it will reopen its main border crossing with Syria this week, according to local reports.
The crossing was closed nearly two months ago due to fighting in Syria’s southern province of Daraa, said the reports.
Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya said the Jaber-Nasib crossing would operate at full capacity as of Wednesday, September 28.
This is expected to happen after all technical and administrative arrangements are completed with the Syrian side.
The Jaber-Nasib crossing is Jordan’s main gateway for goods from Lebanon and Syria to the Arab Gulf countries.
In a statement carried by the Jordanian news agency, Petra, Al-Faraya said the resumption of cargo and passenger movement through the Jaber-Nasib crossing is “aimed at stimulating trade exchange and tourism between the two brotherly countries.”
Jordan’s major trade route, located about 90 km north of Amman, was set to operate at full capacity from August 1, but the decision was put on hold due to a surge in violence in Syria’s Daraa, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising.
In April 2015, Jordan closed its border crossing with Syria as a result of escalating violence in the Syrian bordering town of Nasib, which at the time was said to have been captured by Syrian rebels and fighters from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.