Syria and Saudi Arabia resumed commercial flights on Wednesday, after a decade of strained relations between the two countries.
SANA, the state-run Syrian news agency, said the first regular scheduled flight of the airline Syrian Air flew directly from Damascus to the Saudi capital Riyadh early on Wednesday Morning.
Syrian Air flight number RB389 landed in the Saudi capital at 6:28 am (0328 GMT), according to the website Flight Radar 24. Later, the aircraft returned to Damascus.
The Syrian ambassador in the Kingdom, Ayman Soussan said this move represents "good news for Syrians and Saudis alike because it facilitates communication between the two countries," according to SANA.
He added that the return of regular flights between Syria and Saudi Arabia "is an additional step in the process of steady development witnessed by relations between the two brotherly countries."
Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad was heavily isolated internationally after 2011 when his government brutally suppressed peaceful protests in Syria, which eventually turned into a civil war.
Regular air traffic between Syria and Saudi Arabia, which supported some of the Syrian opposition groups against Al-Assad since 2011, was suspended in 2012.
The resumption is another step towards restoring relations between the two countries. It was only in May that the influential Gulf state appointed an ambassador to Syria for the first time since 2012.
Meanwhile, several other countries in the region are pushing forward the normalization of their relations with Syria.
Last year, Syria also participated in an Arab League summit for the first time since the uprising started.
Additionally, after a visit to the European Football Championship in Berlin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke about the 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, during comments to the press on his return flight from Berlin on Saturday.
"Now we have reached a stage where, if Bashar al-Assad makes a move to improve relations with Turkey, we will reciprocate with a similar approach ... We will extend our invitation. We hope that this invitation will restore Turkish-Syrian relations to their previous level. We can extend an invitation at any moment," he said.