People hold up a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at Aleppo international airport, after the airport was reopened for the first time in years, Syria February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - A SyrianAir passenger plane landed on Wednesday at Aleppo's civilian airport, the first scheduled flight to touch down in the country's war-devastated economic hub for eight years.
The reopening of the airport comes days after the Russian-backed Syrian army said it had seized rural areas northwest of Aleppo, a major strategic gain in weeks of bombing of the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria.
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