Iraqi Airways resumed international flights with a plane taking off Saturday from neighboring Jordan in the state airline's first such flight since 1990 U.N. sanctions on Saddam Hussein's regime. The flight from Amman to Baghdad "left earlier today and we expect another one to fly from Baghdad to the Syrian capital later in the day," said the airline spokesman, Raad Aghabi. "This is the start of regular flights by Iraqi Airways," he told The Associated Press. As of Saturday, Iraqi Airways will fly once daily to Amman and Damascus, he said. He said another route to the United Arab Emirates will be added to the airline schedule at a later stage.
