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This is a list of airports in Syria, a country in Western Asia. Syria borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
During the course of the Syrian Civil War, aviation shootdowns, incidents, and accidents have taken place between different state and non-state actors.By mid-2013, according to the website Strategy Page, the Syrian Arab Republic Air Force losses totaled nearly a hundred fixed-wing aircraft, as well as one hundred helicopters.
Russian soldiers near the airport during the Battle of Aleppo. In January 2013, the facility closed due to the Syrian Civil War, [5] but after Syrian Army advances were made in the area, the airport briefly re-opened on 22 January 2014, welcoming its first civilian flight in more than a year (flights were suspended in December 2012), carrying foreign journalists to the city.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Air traffic at Syria's Aleppo airport will resume on Tuesday following an Israeli air strike. Operations will restart at the airport at midnight (2200 GMT), Syria's transport ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport, arriving from Qatar. The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport. A crowd of relatives and friends awaited the arrival of the passengers inside a terminal building.
Flight-tracking data analyzed by CNN show more than one flight a day since mid-December – by Moscow’s giant Antonov AN-124 transport planes, as well as Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft – from Hmeimim ...
Qatar Airways will offer three weekly flights between Qatar and Damascus, Syria, from Tuesday (7 January). In 2011, flights by the carrier to and from Damascus and Aleppo were cancelled amid Syria ...
Damascus International Airport (Arabic: مَطَار دِمَشْق الدَّوْلِيّ, romanized: Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Inaugurated in the mid-1970s, it also was the country's busiest airport.