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Senior Assad government officials in Damascus reportedly engaged in negotiations with opposition forces regarding potential defections. These developments coincided with Iranian officials' denial of reports suggesting Assad had fled the country, though sources indicated his whereabouts in Damascus remained unknown.
Why did Assad flee to Russia? Russia was a staunch ally of Assad during Syria's civil war and has two key military bases in the Middle Eastern country. In 2015, Russia launched an air campaign in ...
Syria’s presidential office initially denied that Assad had left Damascus or traveled to another country, but after the rebels took the capital, they said he had fled and was searching for him.
December 8: Damascus – and Assad’s rule – falls to rebels The leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, speaks at the Umayyad Mosque after taking ...
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at ...
Celebration in Richardson, Texas, USA after the fall of the Assad regime. In the United States, the White House said President Joe Biden had a meeting with members of the national security to address the situation. [13] Biden later said the Assad regime's end was a "fundamental act of justice" but warned of possible instablity in the region. [12]
After 13 years of Syria’s grinding civil war, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, ... More than 13 million people fled their homes in the war, according to the U.N.’s refugee ...
Mr Assad has been granted asylum by Russia, according to the Tass state news agency, where he met his British-born wife Asma and their children – who had already fled Syria.