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Home World Ousted Syrian President Assad, Family In Moscow, Granted Asylum: Report

Ousted Syrian President Assad, Family In Moscow, Granted Asylum: Report

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New Delhi:

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and household have landed in Moscow and have been granted asylum, Russia state media reported right now, hours after Islamist-led rebels took management of his nation.

“Assad and members of his household have arrived in Moscow,” a Kremlin supply informed the TASS and Ria Novosti information companies. “Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds,” he added.

There was buzz on social media with flight trackers speculating the mysterious whereabouts of Assad for many a part of Sunday.

A Syrian Air airplane took off from Damascus airport across the time the capital was taken by rebels, in response to information from the Flightradar web site.

The plane initially flew in direction of Syria’s coastal area, a stronghold of Assad’s Alawite sect, however then made an abrupt U-turn and flew in the wrong way for a couple of minutes earlier than disappearing off the map.

The sudden change in course and disappearance of the airplane from monitoring might point out it had been shot down, or that it had switched off its transponder.

With Assad and household in Russia now, it’s clear the airplane had switched off its transponder.

Assad’s departure comes lower than two weeks after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group challenged greater than 5 many years of the Assad household rule with a lightning offensive.

“After 50 years of oppression below Baath rule, and 13 years of crimes and tyranny and displacement… we announce right now the top of this darkish interval and the beginning of a brand new period for Syria,” the insurgent factions mentioned on Telegram.

The Islamist chief of HTS, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, visited the capital Damascus’s landmark Umayyad Mosque, as crowds greeted him with smiles and embraces. HTS is rooted within the Syrian department of Al-Qaeda.

Proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Western governments, HTS has sought to melt its picture in recent times.

Throughout Syria, individuals toppled statues of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father and the founding father of the system of presidency that he inherited. For the previous 50 years in Syria, even the slightest suspicion of dissent might land one in jail or get one killed.

As rebels entered the capital, HTS mentioned its fighters broke right into a jail on the outskirts of Damascus, asserting an “finish of the period of tyranny within the jail of Sednaya”, which has grow to be a by-word for the darkest abuses of Assad’s period.

UN warfare crimes investigators on Sunday described Assad’s fall as a “historic new starting” for Syrians, urging these taking cost to make sure the “atrocities” dedicated below his rule aren’t repeated.

The speedy developments got here simply hours after HTS mentioned it had captured the strategic metropolis of Homs, the place prisoners had been additionally launched. Homs was the third main metropolis seized by the rebels, who started their advance on November 27.

US President Joe Biden was maintaining an in depth eye on the “extraordinary occasions” unfolding in Syria, the White Home mentioned. US president-elect Donald Trump mentioned that Assad had “fled his nation” after dropping Russia’s backing.

With inputs from AFP


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