With huge shortage of water and arable land, no work places and lots of borders problems, people (mostly men) are moving to Russia and Kazakhstan as cheap labor force leaving their children, wives and the elderly behind.
The seizure of the peacekeepers was the second serious war-related Syria border problem this week.
The prisoner transfer itself passed off uneventfully, but the whole episode emphasised the border problem.
This is because jihadism is largely a cross-border problem, even when the terrorists themselves are local.
Boucher interpreted the move as a sign of Pakistani frustration and that Pakistan was taking the border problem seriously.
We now know we have to focus on these individuals because it's not just a border problem anymore".
"A change of government in Afghanistan could solve Iran's border problem, its refugee problem and its drug problem," says a European diplomat in Tehran.
What is clear is that Europe needs to work on a cross-border level to tackle what is increasingly becoming a cross-border problem.
He accused Republicans of diverting attention from the state's dire economic condition and the true border problem: crime and violence associated with drug cartels.
David Cameron needs to make sure his focus on pre-referendum negotiations with other European countries are not distracting from solving this serious border problem".
