Syria's Damascus International Airport is set to reopen on 18 December, following its closure on Sunday amid a rapid offensive by rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad's regime, °®Âþµº's Arabic-language sister site Al Araby al-Jadeed reported on Wednesday.
Sources affiliated with the country's national carrier SyrianAir spoke to Al-Araby al-Jadeed, confirming the re-opening of the airport.
The director of the airport, Anis Fallouh, also confirmed it would re-open on 18 December, in a comment to AFP.
"God willing, the airport will reopen as quickly as possible because we are going to work flat out," Fallouh said.
"We can quickly let aircraft resume flights through Syrian airspace, which has been closed" he added.
This comes after the regime's army and security sources were forced to leave from the airport in the early hours of last Saturday, as rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al Sham (HTS) advanced towards Damascus.
According to Rami Abdulrahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Assad left Syria via Damascus International Airport, as his military and security forces withdrew.
Various reports also stated Damascus International Airport issued a "NOTAM" (Notice to Airmen) on Sunday, announcing the suspension of all flights until 18 December.
The notice indicated that operations are expected to resume at 19:00 UTC on that date.
Similarly, Aleppo International Airport announced the suspension of flights until the evening of 17 December, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.
Damascus International Airport, the largest in the country, has previously been taken out of service multiple times, most recently in November, due to Israeli airstrikes.
Assad had withstood protests and an armed rebellion for over 14 years prior to his fall, using brutal military tactics which killed over 500,000 people and displaced millions more to remain in power.
The rebels launched their final offensive on 27 November, shortly after a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was announced in Lebanon.
The war in Lebanon greatly weakened Hezbollah, which was a key ally of the Assad regime throughout the Syrian conflict.
Since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, with Israel carrying out hundreds of airstrikes across the country since.
In recent days, it has escalated its attacks and deployed troops into the UN-monitored buffer zone on the Golan Heights, a move the United Nations has condemned as a violation of the 1974 armistice agreement between Syria and Israel.