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Naharnet
February 20, 2018
President Michel Aoun traveled on an official two-day visit to Iraq on Tuesday at the invitation of his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed Fouad Masum. Aoun arrived at Baghdad International Airport where he was welcomed by Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Culture Minister Firyad Rawanduzi andÃÂ ...
euronews
February 19, 2018
Iraqi refugees voluntarily returning from Finland, wait for their luggage at Baghdad airport, Iraq February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily. Migri said they make the decisions to return asylum seekers based on the information they have concerning threats at that moment. The immigration service alsoÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 11, 2018
BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Monday arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on an official visit to meet with Iraqi leaders, an Iraqi official said. Le Drian was received by his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Baghdad airport and the two sides held a meetingÃÂ ...
Iran Focus
February 9, 2018
The MEK was then forcibly moved to Camp Liberty, an abandoned military base near Baghdad airport, where the international community promised they would be safe until they could be moved out of Iraq. Sadly, the MEK was not free from violence during their time at Camp Liberty and the violence againstÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
February 6, 2018
The Logistics Cluster has been active in Iraq since 2014 to support the humanitarian community in responding to the country's ongoing needs. Logistics constraints, mainly caused by limited access, an unstable security situation and damaged/destroyed infrastructure in affected areas, remain a leadingÃÂ ...
NRT
January 31, 2018
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Prime Minister, Haidar al-Abadi ordered Special Forces on Wednesday (January 31) to take control of Najaf International Airport, after the provincial council opposed the new successors. The Special Forces, escorted by head of Baghdad International Airport, Ali Jawad was sent to oust the airport's currentÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 25, 2018
Authorities of Baghdad International Airport said al-Sudani was handed over by Interpol after being arrested in Lebanon. Al-Sudani, part of Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi's Dawa Party, was sentenced in absentia in 2012 to seven years in jail for corruption. Al-Sudani was accused of embezzling state fundsÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
January 22, 2018
The reporter and crew got visas from the Kurdish government, however it only allowed them to enter from the Baghdad airport. The crew reached the Sabiha airport in Istanbul, and waited for their internal flight to Chernak airport. On board, the Al Arabiya reporter met several Kurdish people who take theÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
January 17, 2018
Baghdad's airport ban on Kurdistan affected hundreds of Ezidis bound for Canada. A displaced Ezidi family waits for food and water while resting at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Faysh Khabour in Duhok province. (Photo: Reuters). Iraq Canada Ezidis. A+ A A-. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24)ÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
January 14, 2018
When a jet skidded off a Turkish runway and dangled precariously off a cliff, the 168 people on board became one of aviation's great escape stories. There were no casualties in Sunday's incident, which was hailed as a 'miracle' by survivors. And while there has been high profile disasters in recent history,ÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 14, 2018
Only daily flights were allowed to Baghdad airport. Iraqi government forces approached the southern borders of Erbil, capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, after taking over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in October, fulfilling instructions made by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi toÃÂ ...
Rudaw
January 3, 2018
The JCC noted reports of violations against travelers at Baghdad airport. Many Kurds are afraid to take that route, “some are banned from doing so and others fear for their safety and dignity,” JCC stated. As a result, those who need to travel are departing the Region overland to Turkey and from there taking internationalÃÂ ...
NRT
December 28, 2017
... airports have been suspended since September 29 following a decision from the central government after the region refused to hand over the airports to Baghdad. With the closing of Kurdistan's airports, every traveler from the region, who wants to leave the country by air, has to go first to Baghdad airport,ÃÂ ...
InterAksyon
December 27, 2017
Alice Soriano Aguilan (left) is brought to the Baghdad International Airport so she can return home. ... on the Twitter account of the Philippine Embassy in Iraq on Tuesday evening, which read, “Three days after her frantic call for help, Alice is now at #Baghdad airport on her way home to the #Philippines.
Telegraph.co.uk
December 25, 2017
When Sajad Jiyad landed at Baghdad airport in summer 2014, he was one of four people on the plane. Driving through the Iraqi capital, the streets were empty and the inhabitants on edge. Even during a decade-long insurgency featuring near daily bombings in the capital, things hadn't seemed this bad.
Der Bund
December 23, 2017
Lieferung an Baghdad International Airport. Produziert wurden sie in Serbien. So steht es in offiziellen Ein- und Ausfuhrpapieren, die den Forschern vorliegen. In diesen taucht auch die Tradewell AG auf. Ihr wurde demnach Ende 2004 die Erlaubnis erteilt, gemeinsam mit einer US-Firma ëdas Material zuà...
Rudaw
December 17, 2017
The children were given into the custody of a Yezidi religious leader in Turkey to accompany them back to their relatives in the Kurdistan Region, through Baghdad airport. Nearly half of the Yezidis abducted by ISIS in August 2014 from Shingal and its surrounding areas are still being held captive or theirÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 16, 2017
PM Barzani and the KRG delegation, which refused to use Baghdad airport in early December when visiting France, crossed into Turkey by land and then took a flight to Paris. Up to 150 German soldiers train the Kurdish forces in the Kurdistan Region. They have trained more than 16,000 Kurdish soldiersÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 15, 2017
The children were given into the custody of a Yezidi religious leader in Turkey to accompany them back to their relatives in the Kurdistan Region, through Baghdad airport. Nearly half of the Yezidis abducted by ISIS in August 2014 from Shingal and its surrounding areas are still being held captive or theirÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 10, 2017
An Iraqi Airways plane lands at Baghdad International Airport. File photo: AP. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq's Minister of Transportation Kazem Finjan al-Hamami announced on Sunday that the United States reduced its flight restrictions in Iraqi airspace after the war against ISIS. The United States FederalÃÂ ...
Rudaw
October 31, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Commercial air travel to and from Baghdad International Airport has halted after staff were threatening to strike. Baghdad airport's flight tracker showed many outbound and inbound flights canceled on Tuesday night. Some European flights were listed as 'delayed.' A source insideÃÂ ...
Coastal Courier
December 31, 1999
In March 2005, after being exposed to 13 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Kinard's unit took a direct hit. He was left unconscious for three days at Baghdad International Airport in a makeshift medical tent. When he awoke, he was immediately diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and bi-lateral hearingÃÂ ...
STAT Times
December 31, 1999
... United Airlines and Cargo Service Center, and the Air Transport Association of America (now Airlines for America). He was also the COO of SkyLink USA, which managed commercial operations at the Baghdad International Airport for USAID, peacekeeping operations in Darfur for the United Nations (UN)ÃÂ ...
American Shipper
December 31, 1999
... Transportation Association (now Airlines For America). He was also chief operating officer at Skylink USA where he managed commercial operations at the Baghdad International Airport for the U.S. Agency for International Development, UN peacekeeping operations in Darfur, and NATO in Afghanistan.
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
Under the international flight ban, many travelers, including KRG leadership, have taken the overland route through Turkey rather than fly through Baghdad airport. Turkey refused to close its border with the Kurdistan Region when Iran did so at the request of Iraq after Kurdistan's independence vote.
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
The Logistics Cluster has been active in Iraq since 2014 to support the humanitarian community in responding to the country's ongoing needs. Logistics constraints, mainly caused by limited access, an unstable security situation and damaged/destroyed infrastructure in affected areas, remain a leadingÃÂ ...
AzerNews
October 19, 2017
... Iraq and Saudi Arabia resumed air traffic after the first plane of the Saudi airliner Flynas airlines landed at Baghdad airport, Sputnik reported.
Gulf Digital News
October 18, 2017
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) will resume its regular flights to neighbouring Iraq within a few weeks, ending a suspension of the service 25Â ...
The Straits Times
October 18, 2017
The pilots of the Flynas aircraft holding up Saudi and Iraqi flags after landing in Baghdad International Airport on Oct 18, 2017. PHOTO:Â ...
Rudaw
October 17, 2017
“Some travelers choose to travel via the Ibrahim Khalil port because of bad treatment from employees at Baghdad airport. But this route ...
Cyprus Mail
October 12, 2017
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has offered to hold talks with Iraqi authorities on the status of Kurdish airports, border posts and ...
NRT
October 10, 2017
Domestic flights are still allowed, so travelers are expected to travel to the Kurdistan Region mostly via Baghdad's airport, which will likely come ...
Scout
September 30, 2017
Near midnight on November 28, 1987, a young woman and an older man board a 707 airliner on the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport.
teleSUR English
September 29, 2017
Domestic flights are still allowed, so travelers are expected to travel to Kurdistan mostly via Baghdad's airport, which will come under strain from ...
NPR
September 27, 2017
Domestic flights will still service Baghdad's international airport, but Jane says that "without Iraqi visas ... foreign workers aren't normally able to ...
Eternity News
December 31, 1999
Nabil Omiesh was scared when a Customs official at Baghdad Airport confronted him about the children's Bibles he was carrying in his suitcase ...
BuzzFeed News
September 20, 2017
... and the far western outskirts of Anbar province — a far cry from the summer of 2014, when ISIS was able to fire rockets into Baghdad's airport.
Travel Trade Daily
September 20, 2017
According to AACO, on September 17, Iraqi Airways commenced weekly flights to Moscow Vnukovo Airport from Basra and Baghdad.
The Debrief
September 19, 2017
... responsible for enforcing strict dress codes on women in the area. Wenzel is now being held in a prison in Baghdad's airport and is awaitingÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
September 19, 2017
A source at Baghdad International Airport said a government delegation headed by Al-Hamami left for Moscow yesterday aboard an IraqiÃÂ ...
Business Insider
September 18, 2017
... the site where a military armored bus was damaged by a roadside bomb near Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2004.
Hurriyet Daily News
September 18, 2017
The German teen is being held in a prison at Baghdad's airport together with other foreign women found in Mosul, including citizens fromÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
September 18, 2017
“Iraqi Interior Minister Qassem al-Araji received the British defense minister at Baghdad's international airport this morning,” an Iraqi ForeignÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
September 17, 2017
This file photo taken on Aug. 05, 2014 shows an Iraqi Airways Boeing 747 sitting at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq. (AFP photo). RussiaÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 16, 2017
The German teen is being held in a prison at Baghdad's airport together with other foreign women found in Mosul, including citizens fromÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
September 11, 2017
The Iraqi Constitution forbids high-ranking officials from holding a second nationality, but many do so anyway, allowing those accused ofÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 5, 2017
I'm groggy when we step into the blast-furnace heat of Baghdad's airport. We don't spend long there, quickly transferring to helicopters for aÃÂ ...
Press TV
September 4, 2017
Iran's Expediency Council chairman Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (R) and its secretary Mohsen Rezaei arrive at Baghdad AirportÃÂ ...
ABC Online
September 3, 2017
"I [once] flew out with him to Kuwait on a RAAF Hercules with all his travelling party, and as we were taking off from Baghdad airport they got aÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
August 26, 2017
Upon his arrival at Baghdad International Airport, Sobotka was received by Iraqi Culture Minister Feryad Rawandouzi at the airport's VIP loungeÃÂ ...
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