Iraq closes northern airspace over missiles launched at Syria
Iraq closed its northern airspace to all flights on Monday for at least two days due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighbouring Syria. The closure was expected to affect domestic commercial routes to Erbil and Sulaimaniya as well as international flights from Turkey, Jordan, the Gulf and Austria. A spokesman for the U.S.-led […]Iraq closed its northern airspace to all flights on Monday for at least two days due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighbouring Syria. The closure was expected to affect domestic commercial routes to Erbil and Sulaimaniya as well as international flights from Turkey, Jordan, the Gulf and Austria.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, which launches reconnaissance and resupply flights from Erbil, said all military traffic had also been halted. Iraq's civil aviation authority said in a statement that flight suspensions were made "to protect travellers and because of the crossing of cruise missiles and bombers in the northern part of Iraq launched from the Caspian Sea".
