USA - FAA tillater ikke amerikanske selskaper å fly over Irak

8 August 2014 Last updated at 15:47 GMT

FAA bans US airline flights over Iraq due to conflict

  The FAA ban only applies to US carriers, such as Delta, United, American Airlines, and others

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned all US airlines from flying over Iraq until further notice.

The FAA said the ban was introduced due to the "hazardous situation" created by fighting between militants from the Islamic State (IS) and Iraqi security forces.
The US launched air strikes against IS in Iraq on Thursday.
Unlike its US counterparts, British Airways said it would continue to fly through Iraqi airspace.
The FAA had previously banned all air travel over Iraq below 30,000 feet on 31 July.
On Saturday, Australian airline Qantas said it had suspended flights over Iraq, following similar actions by German airline Lufthansa, Dubai-based Emirates, Virgin Atlantic and Air France.
Flying over conflict areas has come under increasing scrutiny since the crash of MH 17 in Ukraine in July.

Earlier in July, the FAA and other European carriers briefly suspended flights to Israel's Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv after a rocket landed near the airport.