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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY! SEE THE ONLY REASON AND FACT NIGERIA PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU CANNOT BE ARRESTED OR TOUCHED DESPITE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CORRUPTION, EVEN IF HE SELL THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA FOR PERSONAL INTEREST.Airport authority says flights will resume on January 7 as Qatar Airways set to begin flights to Damascus after 13 years. Syria’s Damascus airport will resume international flights on Tuesday for the first time since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown last month by armed opposition fighters. ...Tap To Read The Full Story Here | ..Tap To Read The Full Story Here...
No flights had taken off or landed since pro-Assad forces abandoned the airport in the Syrian capital on December 8 after the opposition fighters marched on the city following a lightning offensive that began on November 27.
“We announce we will start receiving international flights to and from Damascus International Airport” from Tuesday, state news agency SANA said on Saturday, quoting Ashhad al-Salibi, who heads the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport.
“We reassure Arab and international airlines that we have begun the phase of rehabilitating the Aleppo and Damascus airports with our partners’ help, so that they can welcome flights from all over the world,” he said.
Al Jazeera’s Hashim Ahelbarra, reporting from Damascus, said the announcement has a “significant political and economic implication” for the war-torn nation.
“The new administration has been in touch with key regional players, particularly Qatar, on the need to help them rehabilitate their airport in Damascus to be in line with international safety standards,” he said.
“They want to send a message that life is back to normal in Syria and to allow hundreds of thousands of Syrians who live abroad to come back home. And also, it’s a message to the international community that the new administration, which is in control, and despite the situation across the country, they are managing to ensure safety standards across Syria.”
International aid planes and foreign diplomatic delegations have already been landing in Syria. Domestic flights resumed on December 18, when a flight from Damascus left for Aleppo, according to the AFP news agency.
Syrian Airlines will resume flights from Damascus to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, starting on Tuesday, an employee told AFP, requesting anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY! SEE THE ONLY REASON AND FACT NIGERIA PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU CANNOT BE ARRESTED OR TOUCHED DESPITE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CORRUPTION, EVEN IF HE SELL THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA FOR PERSONAL INTEREST.
On Thursday, Qatar Airways announced it would resume flights to the Syrian capital after nearly 13 years, starting with three weekly flights from Tuesday....Tap To Read The Full Story Here.
