Lufthansa group suspends Tel Aviv flights following Houthi attacks on Israel

A jet of German airline Lufthansa is pictured at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on April 28, 2025. (File/AFP)
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Updated 15 May 2025
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Lufthansa group suspends Tel Aviv flights following Houthi attacks on Israel

  • Airline group Lufthansa will suspend its flights to Tel Aviv through May 25

BERLIN: Airline group Lufthansa will suspend its flights to Tel Aviv through May 25, it said on Thursday, citing the “current situation.”
This affects flights operated by Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, ITA Airways, Brussels Airlines and Lufthansa Cargo, it added.
Global airlines have again halted their flights to and from Tel Aviv after a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis toward Israel on May 4 landed near the country’s main international airport in Tel Aviv.


Syrian government says it controls prison in Raqqa with Daesh-linked detainees

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Syrian government says it controls prison in Raqqa with Daesh-linked detainees

  • Prison holds detainees linked to Daesh, and witnessed ⁠clashes in its vicinity between advancing Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters
The Syrian interior ministry said on Friday it had taken over Al-Aktan ‌prison in ‌the ‌city ⁠of Raqqa ‌in northeast Syria, a facility that was formerly under ⁠the control of ‌Kurdish-led ‍Syrian ‍Democratic Forces (SDF).
The ‍prison held detainees linked to the militant group Daesh, and witnessed ⁠clashes in its vicinity between advancing Syrian government forces and SDF.