The first flight since the ouster of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country’s north, AFP journalists saw.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Thirty-two people including journalists were on board the plane. Al-Assad fled Syria as a lightning opposition offensive wrested from his control city after city. His army and security forces abandoned Damascus airport on December 8.with AFPRead more:Syrian mass graves expose ‘machinery of death’ under Assad, top prosecutor saysSmooth end to Syria sanctions would help address country’s needs: UN envoyAfter meeting Syria’s new leaders, UN eyes ‘ambitious’ aid plan