Iraqi security forces regained control of the Al-Waleed border crossing between Iraq and Syria after the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) briefly seized it, officers said on Monday.

Iraqi security forces regained control of the Al-Waleed border crossing between Iraq and Syria after the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) briefly seized it, officers said on Monday.

The ISIL militants took the crossing on Sunday, but as of Monday evening, it was back in Iraqi government hands, a police colonel and a major in the border guards said.