International flights resume at Damascus Airport for the first time since the fall of the regime
Agencies – Damascus – Amman:
International flights resumed at Damascus Airport for the first time since the overthrow of the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad following a lightning attack launched by opposition factions led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, in which they took control of the largest Syrian cities all the way to the capital.
A Syrian Airlines plane took off from the Damascus airport runway towards Sharjah Airport in the United Arab Emirates. The airport official, Saad Khair Bey, said earlier that the first plane was scheduled to arrive in Syria at midday, coming from the State of Qatar.
Politically… The Foreign Minister of the new Syrian administration, Asaad Al-Shaibani, met in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Al-Safadi, as part of a regional tour.
Al-Safadi said after the meeting that Jordan and Syria agreed to form a joint security committee to secure the borders, noting that the two countries will cooperate together to combat drug and weapons smuggling. Al-Safadi stressed that Damascus and Amman will cooperate to prevent the re-emergence of ISIS.
For his part, Al-Shaibani pledged that drug smuggling would not pose a threat to Jordan again under the new administration. Al-Shaibani is accompanied on his visit by Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and General Intelligence Director Anas Khattab. On December 23, Al-Safadi visited Damascus, and after meeting with the leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, he confirmed his country’s readiness to help in the reconstruction of Syria, noting that “rebuilding Syria is important for Jordan and the region as a whole.”
On December 14, Jordan hosted a meeting on Syria with the participation of the foreign ministers of eight Arab countries, the United States, France, Turkey, and the European Union, in addition to a United Nations representative.
