Iraq's Civil Aviation Authority ordered all flights to and from two northern airports be suspended beginning on Monday due to danger from cruise missiles and bombers crossing to Syria, AFP reports.
"The Civil Aviation Authority decided to suspend all departing and arriving flights from and to Arbil and Sulaimaniyah airports" for 48 hours from 8:00 am on Monday, it said in a statement, referring to airports in the autonomous Kurdish region.
The decision was made to "protect passengers and because of the crossing of cruise missiles and bombers from the northern part of Iraq to Syria, launched from the Caspian Sea and Iran and Iraq," it said.