After the sudden, dramatic takeover of the Syria Arabic Republic by opposition rebels with ties to Isis and Al Qaeda, the long-time ruler Bashar al Assad and his family fled the capital Damascus, leaving orders for the military to surrender and to the officials to enact a peaceful transition of power to the radical Islamists.
Because an airplane thought to be the one he embarked lost altitude and then disappeared from radar, there was rampant speculation that Assad and his family may have died in a plane crash.
That was not the case.
It now arises that the Syrian and his family has arrived in Moscow, according to Russian state media.
Sky News reported:
“Mr. Assad and members of his family arrived in the city on Sunday, a Kremlin source told the TASS news agency.
The source said: ‘Assad and his family members have arrived in Moscow. Russia, for humanitarian reasons, has granted them asylum’.”
❗️Syria’s Bashar Assad and his family are in Moscow, Russia granted asylum to them – TASS, citing Kremlin sources pic.twitter.com/bjBGz0PiSx
— RT (@RT_com) December 8, 2024
Assad’s flight from Damascus after his government collapsed brought to an end his 24-year rule.
“As Mr. Assad fled, footage circulating on social media showed families ransacking presidential palaces in Damascus, with some taking selfies in the grand settings, as thousands celebrated in the streets.”
THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD IS BEING LOOTED.
Footage from social media pic.twitter.com/oueTBd5e54
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) December 8, 2024
The victorious rebels are working to transition power to a new governing body with full executive powers.
“HTS leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani, who led the insurgency, declared ‘the future is ours’ in a statement read out on Syrian state TV. He said there was ‘no room for turning back’ and his group was ‘determined’ to continue on the path it started in 2011.
He later addressed a crowd inside the sprawling Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, where he described the fall of Assad as a ‘victory to the Islamic nation’.”
Watch: Al Jolani’s victory speech at Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
‼️ VICTORY SPEECH: The speech by Al Jolani from the Great Umayyad Mosque in the capital, Damascus. pic.twitter.com/XL35jvqK6x
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 8, 2024
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