air corridor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When U.S. and Israeli forces launched the strikes Saturday morning, more than 1,000 aircraft were flying in the region, including scores crossing the crucial air corridor over Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
The major air corridor over the Euphrates Valley in Iraq was empty.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
When the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established relations with Israel in 2020, Riyadh signalled its assent by providing a Saudi air corridor for Israeli planes headed to those Gulf states.
From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2022
The world’s most recent no-fly zone came in 2011, when the Security Council established a protected air corridor over Libya amid that country’s civil war.
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2022
The screen also showed Navy jets flying back and forth in a narrow air corridor to Afghanistan, known as “the boulevard.”
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2012
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