Sentence examples for damascus flight from inspiring English sources

RIA Novosti said 17 Russians were among the 30 passenger on the board the diverted Moscow to Damascus flight.

The visiting cohort of government officials proposed linking Crimea's capital of Simferopol by air with Damascus, a flight that would allow "both the civilian population and those who were at war" to vacation at a resort, according to Crimean tourism minister Vadim Volchenko.

It is a bank employee booked on a Cairo-Damascus Egyptair flight at 2.30am tomorrow.

Flight Radar: #Damascus International Airport is off the map.

Last Thursday, Orwa was abducted before boarding a flight from Damascus to Cairo.

The network said in a brief statement that it had not had contact with the journalist, Dorothy Parvaz, since she arrived in Damascus on a Qatar Airways flight.

A commentator says Russian has long-standing agreements to supply Syria with "defensive" weapons but says there are "normal" channels for delivering them – hence no need to send them on a civilian flight to Damascus.

"We declared him persona non grata and put him on the next flight to Damascus," said the official, whose account was corroborated by an American official with access to intelligence reports on the episode.

Kouachi, who scraped a living delivering for El Primo Pizza on the other side of the ring-road that serves as a moat around Paris, was arrested in January 2005 on his way to catch a flight to Damascus, believed to be ultimately heading for Iraq.

On the packed flight from Damascus to Baghdad I kept rehearsing the message I hoped to deliver personally to Saddam Hussein: The only chance you have to avert the further devastation and suffering of your country and people is to allow unconditional and unfettered access by United Nations weapons inspectors.

A source who knew Chérif Kouachi at the time of his first arrest on his way to catch the flight to Damascus in 2005 told the Guardian: "He was abandoned very young; it's not clear if his parents couldn't look after the children or if his parents died.