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First Qatari Flight Lands In Syrian Capital Damascus After Nearly 13 Years
The first Qatari commercial flight in nearly 13 years landed in Damascus on Tuesday, AFP correspondents said, as international traffic resumed at Syria's main airport nearly a month after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad.
Syria: First international flight lands in Damascus since overthrow of Assad
The first international flight has landed in Syria since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last month. The flight from Qatar landed around 1pm at Damascus International Airport, according to AFP correspondents, the first from the Gulf state in 13 years.
Damascus Airport welcomes first international flight since Assad's ouster
On December 18, the first flight since Islamist-led rebels ousted Assad 10 days earlier took off from Damascus airport bound for Aleppo in the country's north, according to AFP journalists.
Syria’s Damascus International Airport to resume global flights following the fall of Assad’s regime
International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels overthrew the former regime last month.
International commercial flights resume at Damascus airport
The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad landed at Damascus airport on Jan. 7.
Video: LIVE: Syria’s Damascus airport to resume operating international flights
Syria’s Damascus airport to resume operating international flights Damascus airport in Syria will resume operating international flights. Qatar Airways plane will land for the first time after 13 years of suspension.

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In Damascus, Syrians Reclaim Freedoms Off Limits Under al-Assad
Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...
Damascus Uncorked: Syria Throws a New Year’s Party for the Ages
People set aside divisions and anxiety about the future to mark a once-in-a-lifetime moment of renewal.
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Damascus Diary: A New Year in a New Syria
Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December ...
Fireworks light up night sky in central Damascus as Syrians celebrate arrival of new year post-Assad
Syrians have welcomed in a new year that seems to many to mean a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of ...
Watching The Sun Rise Over A New Damascus
Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus ...
German, French foreign ministers meet Syria's new rulers in Damascus
The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful ...
A Syrian family recounts the horrors of the 2013 chemical attack near Damascus
A Syrian family that survived a 2013 sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, ...
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'Protect our people': Armed Syrian volunteers watch over Damascus
Damascus residents stand guard outside shops and homes armed with light weapons often supplied by Syria's new rulers, eager ...