Possible precedents for an Iran air occupation include Israel’s aerial dominance over the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and the U.S.

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest global situation to punch holes through air traffic flows, a ...

WASHINGTON — Despite stepped-up bombing runs by the U.S. and Britain over Iraq’s “no-fly” zones in recent months, President Saddam Hussein’s air defense network has probably improved ...

W A S H I N G TO N, May 16 -- The United States is considering a major shift in its commitment to patrolling the "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq, military officials said.

Scott Cooper, a Marine aviator for 20 years, deployed five times to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. I spent a year and a half enforcing "no-fly" zones over Iraq and the Balkans.

Iraq fired yesterday on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling a "no-fly" zone over the southern part of the country, confronting the Bush administration with its first test under the new U.N ...

The Bush administration is considering a plan to scale back enforcement of the no-fly zones over Iraq, with the internal debate centering on how, and how far, to pull back, knowledgeable defense ...

For the second consecutive day, Iraq on Monday sent two domestic passenger flights from Baghdad to the cities of Basra and Mosul in defiance of no-fly zones enforced by U.S. and British warplanes ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 5 -- Iraq on Sunday relaunched regular passenger flights to northern and southern "no-fly" zones for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War. The flights took place without ...

Iraq vowed yesterday to increase the number of its domestic flights until it breaks the "no-fly" zones in the north and south of the country, patrolled by British and US planes.

Those no-fly zones continued until the 2003 war in Iraq. Critics said the effort lacked legal authorization, and American attacks on Iraqi air defense infrastructure also killed civilians.

Following the Gulf War, no-fly zones were set up north of the 36 th parallel to protect Iraq’s Kurdish minority and, later, south of the 32 nd parallel to protect the country’s Shiite Muslims.