{"id":60089,"date":"2026-04-09T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:52:15","slug":"us-requests-flight-route-changes-in-iraq-airspace-remains-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60089\/","title":{"rendered":"US requests flight route changes in Iraq, airspace remains open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-09T21:08:09+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US military has requested Iraqi authorities to divert<br \/>\ncivilian aircraft from specific air corridors for security reasons, A security<br \/>\nsource told Shafaq News on Thursday, clarifying that this does not amount to a<br \/>\nclosure of Baghdad International Airport or a full shutdown of Iraqi airspace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airport remains operational, and no Iraqi directive has<br \/>\nbeen issued to close the country\u2019s airspace on Thursday evening, the source<br \/>\nstressed. The request, he said, \u201cis limited to designating certain routes and<br \/>\nkeeping civilian flights away from them to ensure aviation safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News was unable to obtain an immediate comment from<br \/>\nIraqi authorities regarding the request.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The development comes a day after Iraq\u2019s Civil Aviation<br \/>\nAuthority reopened <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraqi-Airways-resumes-flights-on-April-10-after-airspace-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">airspace<\/a> and resumed civilian flights on April 8, 2026,<br \/>\nfollowing improved security conditions after a ceasefire between the United<br \/>\nStates and Iran. Iraq had closed its airspace for 40 days amid regional<br \/>\nmilitary escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-09T21:08:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The US military has requested Iraqi authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[23002,4192,152,23003,94,23001],"class_list":["post-60089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-airspace-remains-open","tag-baghdad-airport","tag-breaking","tag-corridors","tag-iraq","tag-us-requests-flight-route-changes-in-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116376970374215379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}