First flight since Assad's fall takes off from Damascus airport

Forty-three people including journalists were on board the plane
- PUBLISHED: Wed 18 Dec 2024, 12:07 PM
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- AFP
The first flight since the ouster of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country's north, AFP journalists saw.
Forty-three people including journalists were on board the plane. Assad fled Syria as a lightning rebel offensive wrested from his control city after city. His army and security forces abandoned Damascus airport on December 8.
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