The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. carriers from flying over Iraq, the agency announced Friday.
The ban was handed down just hours after the U.S. launched airstrikes in the country for the first time since U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq in December 2011. The American strikes were targeting forces from militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which were endangering Erbil, a city that’s home to a U.S. consulate and several American advisors.
ISIS has been taking control of several parts of Iraq, and the armed conflict between it, the Iraqi military and Kurdish forces in northern …read more
Source: Time
