Monday, December 10, 2018

US FAA Extends Embargo on Damascus International Airport (DAM)

The regime of Donald Trump extended its flights embargo against Syria it imposed on August 29, 2017, prohibiting commercial flights to the Syrian capital Damascus.


FAA’s new rule titled: ‘Extension of the Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Damascus Flight Information Region (FIR (OSTT) is published in the Federal Registrar of the USA on December 10, 2018.

The reason cited by the FAA, which was first published in December 2014 was ‘ongoing threat to U.S. civil aviation operating in the Damascus FIR’, it attributed the threat to ‘the presence of anti-aircraft weapons controlled by non-state actors, threats made by extremist groups, de-confliction concerns, and ongoing military fighting’.

Guess who armed the ‘non-state actors’ with anti-aircraft weapons? No other than the... Continue reading: https://www.syrianews.cc/damascus-airport-faa-embargo/

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