A Syrian lady who arrived at a primary worldwide industrial flight for the reason that fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad shouts anti-Assad slogans on the arrival terminal of Damascus worldwide airport, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — The primary worldwide industrial flight for the reason that fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad landed Tuesday on the Damascus airport.
The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus Worldwide Airport, greeted by the passengers’ relations and pals inside a terminal constructing.
Ashad al-Suleibi, head of Syria’s Air Transport Authority, stated Qatar had offered help in rehabilitating the airport, which had suffered from years of neglect in addition to sustaining damages from periodic Israeli airstrikes.
“Actually, there was lots of injury from the (Assad) regime to this full of life space and this full of life airport and likewise the Aleppo airport,” he stated.
Many passengers had been Syrian nationals coming come for the primary time in additional than a decade.
Qatar Airways aircraft, background, a primary worldwide industrial flight for the reason that fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, lands at Damascus worldwide airport arriving from Qatar, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.
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Osama Musalama, who got here from the US, stated it was his first go to since earlier than the civil conflict that began in 2011.
“I misplaced hope that I might come again to Syria,” he stated. “We had been ready for this second and misplaced hope, however thank God now the nation is again to its individuals.”
Individually, Jordanian state-run Petra information company reported {that a} Royal Jordanian Airways aircraft departed for Damascus on a check flight. The top of Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Fee, Capt. Haitham Misto, who was on board the flight with a crew of specialists, stated that the goal was to guage the technical situation of Damascus airport earlier than resuming common flights.
Because the lightning insurgent offensive that unseated Assad a month in the past, Arab and Western international locations that had lower off relations with the previous authorities have been reopening diplomatic relations with Syria’s new de facto authorities, headed by the Islamist former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
Syria’s new overseas minister, Asaad al-Shibani, has traveled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in current days. The Gulf international locations are more likely to be key to funding Syria’s reconstruction after almost 14 years of civil conflict that preceded Assad’s ouster.
Individuals wait to obtain their relations on the arrival terminal, after a primary worldwide industrial flight for the reason that fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad landed at Damascus worldwide airport, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday, al-Shibani traveled to Jordan to fulfill along with his counterpart in Amman. Jordan’s overseas ministry stated the officers had been set to debate “mechanisms of cooperation in lots of areas together with borders, safety, vitality, transportation, water, commerce and different very important sectors.”
Beneath Assad’s rule, Jordan had been a foremost conduit for smuggling extremely addictive Captagon amphetamines produced in Syria into Gulf states, which was some extent of rigidity between the 2 international locations.
Syria’s new authorities have made a present of cracking down on the Captagon commerce, dismantling former factories in places together with the Mazzeh air base in Damascus, a automotive buying and selling firm in Latakia and a manufacturing unit that after made snack chips within the Damascus suburb of Douma.
Passengers who arrived at a primary worldwide industrial flight for the reason that fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, wait to obtain their luggages on the arrival terminal of Damascus worldwide airport, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.
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“The brand new state of affairs in Syria has additionally ended the threats that beforehand threatened the safety of the Kingdom (of Jordan), with regard to medicine and Captagon, and we pledge that this factor has ended and won’t return once more,” al-Shibani stated in a joint information convention with Jordanian International Minister Ayman al-Safadi.
Al-Safadi stated that his nation helps the Syrian individuals as they work to “rebuild their homeland on the foundations that protect its safety, stability, sovereignty and unity and fulfill the rights of its individuals,” including that Jordan is “prepared to offer electrical energy to our brothers instantly, and we’re additionally able to work collectively to offer gasoline.”
Syria, focused by stringent Western sanctions, has been in a protracted financial disaster and Syrians obtain only some hours of state-provided electrical energy per day.
