Russia wraps up military drills that disrupted air traffic in and out of Beirut, allowing flights to resume on their normal routes, Lebanon’s transportation minister says.
The state-run National News Agency quoted the minister, Ghazi Zeaiter, as saying that Russia informed Lebanon that the aerial exercises over the Mediterranean were complete.
Russia began the drills on Friday. Although flights continued in and out of Beirut, carriers had to take different routes that avoid flying over Syria’s waters, and some airlines canceled flights.
Russia has been carrying out airstrikes in neighboring Syria and has intensified those strikes in recent days after confirmation that a bomb brought down a Russian plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber taking off from the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia. (AFP Photo / Kosomolskaya Pravda / Alexander Kots)
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
— AP
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