Syria's Damascus airport will start operating international flights from Jan. 7, Syrian Civil Aviation Authority chief Ashad Al Saliby told Syrian state news agency Sana on Saturday.
The first flight since the ouster of Syria’s president Bashar Assad took off on Dec. 18 from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country’s north.
Thirty-two people including journalists were on board the plane.
Assad fled Syria as a lightning opposition offensive wrested from his control city after city.