Syria's Aleppo airport resumes flights days after Israeli airstrike

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Syria's Aleppo airport resumes flights days after airstrike

March 10, 2023

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Flights at Syria's international airport in Aleppo resumed Friday, three days after it was put out of service by a suspected Israeli airstrike, the country's head of civil aviation said.

Bassem Mansour told the pro-government Sham FM radio station that flights to and from the airport of Syria's largest city resumed Friday morning after repairs were completed.

The suspected Israeli airstrike early Tuesday left multiple craters on the airport runway, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press showed Thursday.

Since the Feb. 6 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria killing more than 50,000 people, including over 6,000 in Syria, the airport has been a main entry point for jets carrying aid into the war-ton country. Authorities said after the strike that relief flights had been diverted to airports in Damascus and Latakia.

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