ICAO issues alert to civil airlines after Russian missile strike in Syria

The International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO, the United Nations’ air-safety arm, has issued alert on Oct. 9 to all civil airlines that are carrying out commercial flying in the wider airspace around Baghdad, Damascus and Tehran. The alert has been issued after Russian missiles struck targets in Syria.
The alert is described as “the possible existence of serious risks to the safety of international civil flights” that are using the wider airspace in Iran, Iraq and Syria and over the Caspian Sea.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 11 October 2015.

Russia has admitted to firing cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea against Syrian targets—nearly 1,000 miles away. This was in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. and other Western countries have denounced the strikes and Russia has denied that some of the missiles fell short and landed in Iran.
ICAO is based in Cologne, Germany, and it has said that before the missiles reach targets in Syria. They have to traverse the airspace above Caspian Sea, Iran and Iraq, below flight routes which are used by commercial transport aircrafts.
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