Officials at Cairo International Airport on Monday have refused an inbound Syrian Airlines plane and requested it fly back to Latakia with all its passengers on board, according to new regulations which state that Syrian nationals must obtain a visa and security approval before arriving in Cairo. Syrian Airlines flight number 203, flying from Latakia with 95 passengers, had arrived in Cairo without foreknowledge of the new procedures. Fifty-five other Syrians arriving on a Middle East Airlines flight from Beirut, and 39 others arriving on other airlines, were also denied entry into Egypt. Syrian nationals did not previously require visas to enter Egypt. Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
