Anyone planning to travel through the Damascus International Airport in Syria should reconsider. As Syrian rebels fight to take down President Bashar Assad, the Syrian capital's airport is a legitimate target."
The announcement is a warning to travelers and members of the regime who are planning to use the airport. This warning comes as fighting between Assad troops and rebels grew much stronger near the airport.
For the second time this week, the airport road was closed due to the fighting and several commercial flights were suspended.
Fighters in the southern suburbs of Damascus said the rebels are trying to besiege the airport to try to cut off military supplies from being sent to the regime, according to NBC News.
It is believed that Iran and Russia are sending the government weapons through the airport so the rebels are trying to put an end to this.
"This would send a very strong political message to the regime, it will be a moral victory, to say the least," a fighter, who gave only his first name, Nour, for security reasons told the Associated Press. "The battle to cut off the regime supplies from the airport has started."
"The rebel brigades who have been putting the airport under siege decided yesterday that the airport is a military zone," Nabil al-Amir, a spokesman for the rebels' Damascus Military Council told NBC. "The airport is now full of armored vehicles and soldiers."
"Civilians who approach it now do so at their own risk," he said.Several Damascus suburbs are already taking a beating as regime activists are firing rockets and mortars at the areas.
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