Baghdad airport to shut from March 26 for summit

Baghdad's international airport will shut from March 26 until the end of an Arab League summit in the Iraqi capital on March 29, the country's civil aviation chief told AFP on Tuesday.

"We will close off flights from the 26th until the end of the summit," said Nasser Hussein Bandar, head of Iraq's civil aviation authority. "It (the airport) will be used for receiving delegations."