As fighting continued in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, officials closed the international airport, citing the threat of rebel attacks against it and repeated promises by militants to target civilian aircraft flying out of the airport.
Syrian rebels attacked Syrian Airways flight RB201 to Cairo in mid-December, and had promised to attack all flights coming out of Aleppo and Damascus. The area around Aleppo is much more contested than Damascus, however, and it appears rebels just couldn’t be kept far enough away from the Aleppo airport to keep it running.
Exactly how big the impact of the closure will be is unclear, as fighting has brought Aleppo’s industry to a halt for months, and the airport was not in nearly as broad of use as it had been.
Whether the closure is permanent or not also isn’t clear, because while airport officials certainly gave that impression, the Syrian military insisted it would soon “clear” the area around the airport from rebels, potentially allowing it to reopen.
Typical terrorist behavior: attacking civilian aircraft. ..
So the "terrorists" are acting like 'terrorists'…is this a surprise to anyone?
The US has TSA to allegedly prevent "terrorists" from getting onto commercial airplanes in the US, so terrorists getting to an airport is obviously not difficult…not even in the US. Duh…
Obviously the Aleppo Airport is well in Syrian government control, and has been operating this entire time. Believing the terrorist propaganda and knowing the commercial Airport in Aleppo has been operating this entire time is a little difficult to reconcile… Good to know though…
Do you have any more 'terrorist' so-called "news" to 'report' Ditz?
Soon such countries attacked by USA/NATO with proxy terrorism will hit back. Hiring a few criminals for US airports and giving them some RPGs or of the US stingers would be no problem at all, but would quickly stop the US terrorists in Syria & Libya.
Without money, top-weapons and US satellite command &control they have no chance against the Syrian army.
That's why they called terrorists, their job is to terrorize people, passengers are people, so as the mall goer, so as kids at school, so as train passengers that were killed by the NATO in Serbia, so as Vietnamese, so as Koreans, so as homeless veterans and………., and who is responsible…? The system which creates terrorists.
This is yet another of many serious violations of international law for which the U.S. bears responsibility, and has done nothing to prevent, and about which remains silent other than to publicly excoriate the victim. Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Jeffrey Feltman, Samantha Power, Leon Panetta, Gen. Dempsey, the departed David Petraeus……and Barack Obama, what hath you wrought? Why have you facilitated this? Why are doing nothing to stop this? Are you all willing to face the music in the International Court of Justice at the Hague?
Nomange…, if you think that U.S or EU – NATO and that Danish RATT MUSSEN or for that matter Saudis give a damn about the international laws think again.., if they did they wouldn't start such wars as they have throughout the history and for last 30 years.
Look: Jason is not a journalist on the field looking at what is happening nor he got any other source of info then looking at what other News Agencies are saying.., he just repeating and adding words or reducing their say, his just a messenger, so is the entire Anti War.com.