{
  "dataset": "Syria land border crossings",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-08-15",
  "verification_note": "Operational statuses marked 'confirmed' are taken from the UN Logistics Cluster access update of 9 March 2026. Crossings marked 'unconfirmed' exist and have operated historically but were not listed in that update; verify locally before planning cargo. Coordinates are approximate gate locations for mapping purposes only.",
  "primary_source": {
    "name": "UN Logistics Cluster — Syria border-crossings, airports and ports update, 9 March 2026",
    "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "bab-al-hawa",
      "name": "Bab al-Hawa",
      "counterpart_name": "Cilvegözü",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Idlib",
      "counterpart_region": "Hatay",
      "lat": 36.2247,
      "lng": 36.6706,
      "status": "Operational",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Daytime operating hours; confirm with the General Authority for Crossings",
      "corridor": "Aleppo – Idlib – Türkiye (M4 / Hatay corridor)",
      "summary": "Syria's busiest northern gateway and the historic humanitarian lifeline into Idlib. Open for both civilian and commercial movement.",
      "detail": "Bab al-Hawa handled more than 500,000 travellers in the first half of 2026, including over 57,000 returnees — the highest of any Syrian crossing. A rehabilitation and expansion programme is being executed by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing with the General Authority for Crossings and Customs to raise throughput for both passengers and freight.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" },
        { "label": "SANA — 7m+ travellers crossed Syria's land borders in H1 2026", "url": "https://sana.sy/en/syria/2335480/" },
        { "label": "SANA — Bab al-Hawa rehabilitation and expansion begins", "url": "https://sana.sy/en/syria/2308652/" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bab-al-salameh",
      "name": "Bab al-Salameh",
      "counterpart_name": "Öncüpınar",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Aleppo (Azaz)",
      "counterpart_region": "Kilis",
      "lat": 36.6250,
      "lng": 37.0167,
      "status": "Operational",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Confirm locally",
      "corridor": "Azaz – Aleppo – Kilis",
      "summary": "Northern Aleppo gateway feeding the Azaz–Aleppo axis and, onward, the M5 to Homs and Damascus.",
      "detail": "Bab al-Salameh sits on the shortest road link between Aleppo and the Turkish province of Kilis, making it the natural freight route for Turkish manufactured goods entering northern Syria. It runs parallel to the Kilis–Aleppo gas interconnector.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "al-rai",
      "name": "Al-Rai",
      "counterpart_name": "Çobanbey",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Aleppo",
      "counterpart_region": "Gaziantep",
      "lat": 36.6850,
      "lng": 37.4400,
      "status": "Operational",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Confirm locally",
      "corridor": "Al-Bab – Aleppo – Gaziantep",
      "summary": "Secondary Turkish crossing serving the Al-Bab and eastern Aleppo countryside.",
      "detail": "Al-Rai is co-located with a historic rail crossing on the Baghdad Railway alignment, giving it long-term relevance if the Türkiye–Aleppo rail rehabilitation proceeds.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jarablus",
      "name": "Jarablus",
      "counterpart_name": "Karkamış",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Aleppo",
      "counterpart_region": "Gaziantep",
      "lat": 36.8206,
      "lng": 38.0111,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Euphrates crossing – Manbij – Aleppo",
      "summary": "Euphrates-side crossing north of Manbij. Historically active but not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update.",
      "detail": "Jarablus commands the western bank of the Euphrates and a road/rail crossing point. Confirm current operating status with the General Authority for Crossings and Customs before routing cargo.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tal-abyad",
      "name": "Tal Abyad",
      "counterpart_name": "Akçakale",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Raqqa",
      "counterpart_region": "Şanlıurfa",
      "lat": 36.6944,
      "lng": 38.9528,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Raqqa – Şanlıurfa",
      "summary": "Northern Raqqa gateway. Not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update — verify before use.",
      "detail": "Tal Abyad is the shortest route between Raqqa governorate and the Turkish rail and road network at Şanlıurfa.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ras-al-ayn",
      "name": "Ras al-Ayn",
      "counterpart_name": "Ceylanpınar",
      "country": "Türkiye",
      "iso": "TR",
      "governorate": "Hasakah",
      "counterpart_region": "Şanlıurfa",
      "lat": 36.8500,
      "lng": 40.0700,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Hasakah – Şanlıurfa",
      "summary": "North-eastern crossing into Hasakah governorate. Not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update.",
      "detail": "Ras al-Ayn sits directly on the Syria–Türkiye railway alignment and is the closest crossing to the agricultural belt of the Jazira.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "semalka",
      "name": "Semalka",
      "counterpart_name": "Fishkhabour (Peshkhabour)",
      "country": "Iraq",
      "iso": "IQ",
      "governorate": "Hasakah",
      "counterpart_region": "Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq",
      "lat": 37.1258,
      "lng": 42.3492,
      "status": "Open",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger", "Humanitarian"],
      "hours": "Confirm locally",
      "corridor": "Jazira – Duhok – Erbil",
      "summary": "Pontoon-bridge crossing over the Tigris linking north-east Syria to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.",
      "detail": "Semalka is the principal humanitarian and commercial artery for north-east Syria, carrying aid, fuel and consumer goods from Iraqi Kurdistan. Capacity is constrained by the floating-bridge configuration rather than by customs throughput.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "abu-kamal",
      "name": "Abu Kamal (Al-Bukamal)",
      "counterpart_name": "Al-Qa'im",
      "country": "Iraq",
      "iso": "IQ",
      "governorate": "Deir ez-Zor",
      "counterpart_region": "Al-Anbar",
      "lat": 34.4500,
      "lng": 40.9500,
      "status": "Open",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Confirm locally",
      "corridor": "Baghdad – Al-Qa'im – Deir ez-Zor – Damascus (Euphrates corridor)",
      "summary": "The strategic Euphrates-valley crossing on the Baghdad–Damascus axis, and the land node closest to the Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline route.",
      "detail": "Abu Kamal / Al-Qa'im is the shortest surface route between central Iraq and Damascus. Its significance rises sharply if the Kirkuk–Baniyas crude pipeline is rehabilitated, since the pipeline corridor runs broadly parallel to this road.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "al-yaarubiyah",
      "name": "Al-Yaarubiyah",
      "counterpart_name": "Rabia",
      "country": "Iraq",
      "iso": "IQ",
      "governorate": "Hasakah",
      "counterpart_region": "Nineveh",
      "lat": 36.8117,
      "lng": 42.0575,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Mosul – Hasakah – Aleppo",
      "summary": "Historically the main Syria–Iraq commercial crossing on the Mosul axis. Not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update.",
      "detail": "Al-Yaarubiyah/Rabia carried the bulk of pre-war Syria–Iraq overland trade and sits on the Baghdad Railway alignment. It is the crossing most often cited in discussions of restoring full Iraq–Syria–Mediterranean surface transit.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "al-tanf",
      "name": "Al-Tanf",
      "counterpart_name": "Al-Walid",
      "country": "Iraq",
      "iso": "IQ",
      "governorate": "Homs (Badia)",
      "counterpart_region": "Al-Anbar",
      "lat": 33.4950,
      "lng": 38.6100,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Baghdad – Damascus international highway (desert route)",
      "summary": "Tri-border desert crossing on the direct Baghdad–Damascus highway. Not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update.",
      "detail": "Al-Tanf offers the shortest theoretical Baghdad–Damascus road distance and sits near the Jordan–Iraq–Syria tri-border. Its status has been shaped by security arrangements rather than customs capacity.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nassib",
      "name": "Nassib",
      "counterpart_name": "Jaber",
      "country": "Jordan",
      "iso": "JO",
      "governorate": "Daraa",
      "counterpart_region": "Mafraq",
      "lat": 32.6494,
      "lng": 36.3236,
      "status": "Operational 24/7",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger", "Transit to Gulf"],
      "hours": "24 hours, 7 days",
      "corridor": "M5 southern terminus — Damascus – Amman – Aqaba – Gulf",
      "summary": "Syria's single most important commercial crossing: the gateway to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf, and the southern end of the M5.",
      "detail": "Nassib–Jaber operates round the clock for both civilian and commercial traffic. Jordanian trucks resumed direct entry into Syrian territory in December 2024. The crossing recorded more than 24,000 returnees in the first half of 2026. It is the mandatory node for any Türkiye-to-Gulf overland corridor and the southern terminus of the M5 rehabilitation programme.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" },
        { "label": "SANA — H1 2026 land border movement figures", "url": "https://sana.sy/en/syria/2335480/" },
        { "label": "Enab Baladi — Syrian economy awaits transit flow through border crossings", "url": "https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2025/01/syrian-economy-awaits-transit-flow-through-border-crossings/" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "al-masnaa",
      "name": "Jdeidet Yabous",
      "counterpart_name": "Al-Masnaa",
      "country": "Lebanon",
      "iso": "LB",
      "governorate": "Rif Dimashq",
      "counterpart_region": "Beqaa",
      "lat": 33.6086,
      "lng": 35.9550,
      "status": "Operational 24/7",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "24 hours, 7 days",
      "corridor": "Damascus – Beirut international highway",
      "summary": "The Damascus–Beirut artery. Operational 24/7 for both civilian and commercial movement and the primary route to the Port of Beirut.",
      "detail": "Al-Masnaa / Jdeidet Yabous is roughly 55 km from Damascus and 45 km from Beirut, making the Port of Beirut the fastest sea gateway for the Syrian capital by road. It carries the bulk of Syria–Lebanon overland trade and passenger movement.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jousiyeh",
      "name": "Jousiyeh",
      "counterpart_name": "Al-Qaa",
      "country": "Lebanon",
      "iso": "LB",
      "governorate": "Homs",
      "counterpart_region": "Baalbek-Hermel",
      "lat": 34.3417,
      "lng": 36.4200,
      "status": "Operational 24/7 on both sides",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "24 hours, 7 days",
      "corridor": "Homs – northern Beqaa – Tripoli",
      "summary": "The Homs gateway to Lebanon and the natural feeder for the Port of Tripoli corridor.",
      "detail": "Jousiyeh / Al-Qaa links central Syria to northern Lebanon. It is the crossing that makes Tripoli viable as a Mediterranean outlet for Homs and central Syria — a corridor explicitly identified by Syria's leadership as a strategic logistics route.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" },
        { "label": "Noon Post — Syria and Lebanon reorder their economic interests", "url": "https://www.noonpost.com/en/379999/" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "arida",
      "name": "Al-Arida (Sheikh Jaber)",
      "counterpart_name": "El Aarida",
      "country": "Lebanon",
      "iso": "LB",
      "governorate": "Tartous",
      "counterpart_region": "Akkar",
      "lat": 34.6469,
      "lng": 35.9906,
      "status": "Restricted — pedestrian only, one direction",
      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "modes": ["Pedestrian"],
      "hours": "Movement limited to pedestrians entering Syria from Lebanon",
      "corridor": "Coastal route — Tartous – Akkar – Tripoli",
      "summary": "Coastal crossing currently limited to pedestrian traffic in one direction only, from Lebanon into Syria.",
      "detail": "Al-Arida is the coastal crossing that would otherwise offer the shortest road link between Tartous port and Tripoli port. Its restriction to one-way pedestrian movement is the single biggest constraint on an integrated Tartous–Tripoli coastal logistics corridor.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dabbousiyeh",
      "name": "Al-Dabbousiyeh",
      "counterpart_name": "Al-Aboudiyeh",
      "country": "Lebanon",
      "iso": "LB",
      "governorate": "Homs",
      "counterpart_region": "Akkar",
      "lat": 34.5589,
      "lng": 36.2222,
      "status": "Status not confirmed in latest UN update",
      "confidence": "unconfirmed",
      "modes": ["Commercial freight", "Passenger"],
      "hours": "Verify before use",
      "corridor": "Homs – Akkar – Tripoli",
      "summary": "Northern Lebanon crossing on the Homs–Tripoli axis. Not listed in the 9 March 2026 Logistics Cluster update.",
      "detail": "Al-Dabbousiyeh / Al-Aboudiyeh is an alternative to Jousiyeh for traffic between Homs and the Akkar plain and onward to Tripoli.",
      "sources": [
        { "label": "UN Logistics Cluster access update, 9 Mar 2026 (not listed)", "url": "https://logcluster.org/en/alerts/syria-border-crossings-airports-and-ports-updates-9-march-2026" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}