Qamishli International Airport
Qamishli Airport is an airport serving Qamishli, a city in northeastern Syria.
History
Although the airport was closed to civilians around October 2015, it has been reopened again, and Syrian flight companies including Cham Wings Airlines and Syrian Air have provided regular flights into Qamishli from Damascus, Latakia and Beirut until November 2024. The airport used to receive seasonal foreign flights from Germany and Sweden. On 21 January 2016, Russia's activity presumably aimed at setting up a new military base in the government-controlled and mainly abandoned airport was first reported.On 7 December 2024, a day prior the fall of the Assad regime, the Syrian Democratic Forces took control of the airport following the withdrawal of pro-regime militants. A few days later, rumours alleged that Israeli airstrikes targeted weapons depots left in the facility. However Turkey's MIT intelligence service claimed responsibility for the attack, as they detected that the "YPG seized the military supplies and was taking them to its own warehouses". Later that month, on 16 December, two Russian Ilyushin military transport planes withdrew from the airport. As of June 2025 the airport serves as a military outpost for the Russian military. In January 2026, Russian troops withdrew from Qamishli during the ceasefire between the Syrian transitional government and the SDF.