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Three Iraqi airports suspend Iranian flights starting Friday, sources and state media say

Global Published 25 September 2026, 16:42 · archived 25 Sep 2026

Iraq’s Erbil and Sulaimaniya airports suspended Iranian flights starting on Friday, two sources told Reuters, after other Iraqi airports took the same step earlier in the week. The move means that according to sources and state media, flights to and from Iran are suspended from all four Iraqi airports at which they were operating — Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Sulaimaniya. Iraq’s state news agency reported the suspension at Najaf International Airport earlier on Friday. Two separate sources told Reuters earlier in the week that Iraq ordered its civil aviation authority to halt Iranian flights to ...

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