Official links for travelling to Syria
The official websites and accounts of the Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor airports, the civil aviation authority, Syrian airlines, the foreign ministry and the border authorities, and tools to check whether your passport needs a visa.
We check every link ourselves, and each card shows when. An account is listed only when the body's own website links to it; we found no website for the ports authority, so we list the Telegram channel we already cite for crossings.
Airports and civil aviation
Damascus International Airport
The live flight board (arrivals and departures), the airlines and destinations it serves, contact numbers and lost property. The site says it is the airport's only official website.
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Aleppo International Airport
The live flight board, the airlines and destinations it serves, contact numbers with office hours, and lost property. It too says it is the airport's only official website.
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Deir ez-Zor International Airport
The live flight board, and the airlines and destinations it serves. It also says it is the airport's only official website.
checked Deir ez-Zor airport on fly.sy →
General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport
Operates the Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor airports, and posts its news, circulars and decisions on these channels, which the airports' sites list as their own. Its website is being rebuilt; the complaints page takes complaints about airports, airlines and travel procedures, by form, email or WhatsApp around the clock.
- Websitegaca.gov.sy
- Complaints
- Telegramt.me/SyrGACA
- Facebookfacebook.com/SyrGACA
- Instagraminstagram.com/syrgaca
- Xx.com/SyrGACA
- YouTubeyoutube.com/@SyGACA
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Syrian airlines
Book and check your flight with the airline itself. Foreign airlines flying to Syria are listed on the airlines page. Who flies to Syria →
Syrian Air
Flight search and booking, the flight list, timetable and destinations, also in its app. The airports' sites link to syriaair.com, which now opens this site.
- Websitesyrian-airlines.net
- Telegramt.me/Syrian_Airlines
- Facebookfacebook.com/SyrianAirlinesGo
- Instagraminstagram.com/syrian.airlines
- Xx.com/syrian_airlines
- iPhone appApp Store
- Android appGoogle Play
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Fly Cham
Booking, managing a booking and where it flies. Its travel updates page posts notices such as flights resuming.
- Websiteflycham.com
- Travel updates
- Facebookfacebook.com/flychamofficial
- Instagraminstagram.com/fly.cham
- Xx.com/fly_cham
- WhatsApp channelwhatsapp.com
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Passports and embassies
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Consular services for Syrians abroad, through the embassies: passports (first issue, renewal, replacement), consular registration, and legalising documents and powers of attorney. The MOFA SY app books embassy appointments; the ministry says to deal with no broker or intermediary.
- Websitemofaex.gov.sy
- Consular services
- Embassies and consulates
- iPhone appApp Store
- Android appGoogle Play
- Telegramt.me/syrianmofaex1
- Facebookfacebook.com/syrianmofaex
- Instagraminstagram.com/syrian_mofaex
- Xx.com/syrianmofaex
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Ministry of Interior
Under constructionIts Immigration and Passports Department issues passports inside Syria. For now its website shows only an "under construction" notice.
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Do you need a visa?
Apart from Syria's own e-visa site, these are independent tools, not official sources. Confirm with the embassy of the country you are going to before you book. Documents you need →
Syria's e-visa site
Not working right nowPress reports say the Ministry of Tourism launched it in May 2024 for online visa applications. It did not open when we checked, so don't count on it for now.
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IATA Travel Centre
IATA's tool for travellers: passport, visa and health requirements for your nationality and itinerary. It is built on Timatic, the travel-document database IATA says airlines trust.
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Passport Index
Country by country: where the Syrian passport goes without a visa, with a visa on arrival or an eTA, and where it needs a visa first. An independent site, not an official source.
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Wikipedia
Visa requirements for Syrian citizens, country by country, edited by volunteers. Check the source cited for a country before relying on it.
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Henley Passport Index
Ranks the world's passports by how many destinations their holders can reach without a prior visa, updated monthly. A ranking, not an answer for a particular trip.
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Land borders
General Authority for Ports and Customs
Openings, closures, hours and works at the land crossings, on the Telegram channel it calls official. We found no website for it.
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Lebanese General Security
Lebanon's rules for Syrians entering Lebanon or crossing it into Syria, including the 24-hour transit permit for Syrians who fly or sail into Lebanon to cross into Syria. The page on these rules is in Arabic.
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Flight tracking
Flightradar24
Live arrivals and departures at each airport, and whether a flight actually flew, by flight number.
- Damascus airportflightradar24.com
- Aleppo airportflightradar24.com
- Deir ez-Zor airportflightradar24.com
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FlightAware
Arrivals, departures, flights en route and scheduled flights at each airport, and the airport's status.
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Know an official link that's missing, or one that has changed? Write to info@fly.sy