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Iraq is planning to open the Baghdad and Basra airports to regular commercial flights at the beginning of July, Iraq's civil aviation director, Fakher Faraj, was quoted as saying here Tuesday.
"We plan to reopen Baghdad and Basra airports for civil use in the beginning of July as part of a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate all Iraqi airports and reopen them," Faraj told the official KUNA news agency.

The plan also stipulates reopening Mosul airport, the development of Arbil and Kirkuk airports, as well as constructing a new modern airport in the Shiite religious city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, he said.