The Kremlin gave notice of the arrival of the deposed Syrian leader to the Russian capital during the local night hours. Meanwhile, the capital Damascus was completely taken by Al Gobani’s jihadist insurgents.
Al Assad with Putin, on his visit to Moscow in August of this year.
Deposed Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and his family are in Moscow, after receiving political asylum of the Russian authorities. From the Kremlin, local media reported, they decided to receive the ousted president for “humanitarian reasons.” Meanwhile, Mohammed Al Gobani entered Damascus, the capital of Syria, where he advanced with the HTS rebel army and visited the Umayyad Mosque.
The Interfax news agency quoted the anonymous source as saying: “Syrian President Al Assad has arrived in Moscow. “Russia granted him and his family asylum on humanitarian grounds.” This Sunday, thousands of Syrians celebrated the fall of Al-Assad’s government in the streetswho lost his place at the hands of rebel groups led by Islamists who arrived in Damascusa situation that plunged the country into uncertainty.
The president, who directed Syria with an iron fist since coming to power 24 years ago, he resigned and left the country, Russia, his main ally, had stated.
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After being overthrown in Syria, Al Assad will have political asylum in Russia
Putin helped Al Assad for more than a decade with military resources to combat the rebels. The Syrian had a very good relationship with the Russian regime.
Dozens of people broke into his luxurious residence in Damascus. The house of the Alawite leader, who succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, was also looted. The rebel alliance led by the Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) implemented a curfew in that city from 4 p.m. local time until 5 a.m. on Monday. The announcement came hours after their entry into the Syrian capital, after a dazzling offensive launched from the province of Idlib, in the northwest of the country, on November 27.
The Islamist leader of the rebel coalition, Abu Mohamed al Jolani according to his nom de guerre, arrived in Damascus on Sunday and went to the famous Umayyad mosque where he gave a speech. Dozens of people took to the streets, according to images from the local channel AFPTV, to celebrate the fall of the government. Images showed people trampling statues of Al-Assad, Bashar’s father.
At least 910 people, including 138 civilians, have been killed since the start of the offensive, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). The violence also displaced 370,000 people, according to the UN, in a country that suffered a bloody civil war sparked by the repression of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011.
Source: Reuters and AFP
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