Close to Syrian Border

So a fun fact about my villiage - I am about two kilometers from the Syrian border. Yesterday I waked within 100 meters of the border, about 20 minutes walking. We have to stay on the road as the border is lined with an electric fence and land mines, a vestigial, I am told, from the interneceine disagreements of the 1950s and 60s, when Syria, being a revolutionary regime in the Egyptian and Soviet camp were not BFF the Hashemite monarchy, who was (and remains) staunchly pro-western; apparently a few get set off each year for various reasons.