Kuwait Airways announced Thursday that it would immediately halt all flights to Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, after receiving a security warning from authorities in Cyprus.
Kuwait's national carrier "decided to stop flights to Beirut starting Thursday, April 12, until further notice," a tweet from the airline's official account said early Thursday.
A separate tweet clarified that the decision was "based on serious security warnings received from the Cypriot authorities on the danger of flying in the airspace surrounding the Republic of Lebanon." The decision was taken to insure the safety of passengers, the tweet said.
The European Aviation Safety Agency on Tuesday alerted airlines to the possible launch of air-to-ground missiles in the eastern Mediterranean, causing major airlines to begin rerouting flights to avoid Syrian airspace.
A day after the warning was issued by Europe's air safety watchdog, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack in the town of Douma, declaring that missiles “will be coming.”
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