DAMASCUS —
Damascus International Airport is
due to reopen on Thursday, almost two weeks after Israeli air strikes rendered
its runways unusable, the Syrian transport ministry said.
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The Syrian authorities had to suspend flights and
undertake major repairs after Israeli air strikes on June 10 had damaged the
runways, the control tower, reception rooms, and hangars.
“Damascus International Airport is back in service
as of tomorrow,” the Syrian transport ministry said in a statement on
Wednesday.
The Israeli bombing had caused extensive damage
caused to civilian and military runways, the
UK-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights war monitor said.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel
has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its northern neighbor.
Russia’s military intervention in 2015 helped turn
the war in favor of
Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad.
The conflict has claimed the lives of nearly half a
million people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from
their homes.
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