Qatar Airways has resumed flights to Syria after cancelling operations 13-years-ago, with weekly flights to Doha and Damascus — encouraging tourists to return to the country

Could the return of Qatar Airways to Damascus tempt other international airlines to put the Syrian capital back on the route map?

Qatar Airways resume flights to Syria after 13 years - Commercial flights between Doha and Damascus will fly from Tuesday

Iranians and Israelis have been banned from flying to Syria, which is under new leadership since last month's overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, an airport source said. A Damascus airport source said the facility's authorities told airlines operating in Syria not to allow Israelis and Iranians to board flights to the country.

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at the Damascus airport arriving from Qatar.

The three times a week Damascus flights connect Syria to Qatar Airways’ network of more than 170 destinations via Doha

The country’s new leaders are pushing to restore a sense of normalcy. But Syria remains under a host of international sanctions imposed during the Assad regime.

Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria's new government, a U.S. official and a senior diplomat said, vital assistance to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus a month after they toppled Bashar al-Assad.

The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport, greeted by the passengers' relatives and friends inside a terminal building. Ashad al-Suleibi, head of Syria’s Air Transport ...

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International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on 7 January, a month after rebels overthrow the Assad regime.

Major airlines are planning to reinstate flights to the Middle East following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Over the last 15 months of conflict, several Western carriers pulled out of flights to Israel, Jordan and Lebanon as missile attacks closed skies over Iraq and Iran in unpredictable airspace.