Al Assad in Moscow, Granted Asylum With Family

Former President of Syria Bashar Al Assad is now a Moscow resident and ends much speculation to his whereabouts.

After at least 10 hours of media rumors, Sunday, a Kremlin source confirmed to TASS, the state-owned news agency that Al Assad has arrived in Russia with his family and has been granted political asylum.

The news confirmed on Sunday night is trending on the social media with photos and images of him and his family.  

The source said that “President Assad of Syria has arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them (him and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds”.

The confirmation puts an end to the mystery of his whereabouts. News reports suggested earlier a plane took him early Sunday morning over Homs, took an eastern turn and disappeared off the radar screen.

It added fuel to the theory that it may have been shot by rebel groups who where taking over the country.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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At least nine journalists were injured. They are Ahmed Mansour, Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed Al-Agha, Mohammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab Al-Bardini, Mahmoud Awad, Majed Qdeih, and Ali Eslaih.

At least two of the wounded journalists are in critical condition, one of them with severe burns and the other with a head injury from shrapnel.

In a disturbing footage circulating on social media, journalist Ahmed Mansout can be seen consumed by fire as people and rescue workers tried desperately to put it out. Mansour is a father and a journalist for Palestine Today.

“(Israeli) Missiles burned Colleague Ahmed Mansour and is still in intensive care, suffering from severe burns as a result of the targeting of the tent where he is sitting in the journalists’ camp at Nasser Hospital,” Wael Abo Omar, a Palestinian journalist in the blockaded enclave, said on X.

Mahmoud Bassam, a photojournalist based in Gaza, said Mansour “needs a miracle” to recover from the severe burns.

Journalist Helmi al-Faq’awi was tragically killed in the horrific Israeli attack along with another man, Yousef al-Khuzendar.

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