Bashar Al Assad spends most of his day playing video games. The ex-Syrian president now has nothing to do but roam around his set of luxury flats in a high-security skyscraper in central Moscow. 

Doomed to exile with his wife and three children, Al Assad must now get used to his new life as a private citizen having escaped, literally at the last minute, on a Russian plane in Khmeimim base near Latakia, north Syria, on 8 December, 2024 and whisked all the way to the Russian capital.

Later, and in his one-only tweet Al Assad would say he had no intention of leaving Syria but was forced to do so when Jihadi groups started firing drones on the Khmeimim base, and it was then, a Russian decision was taken quickly to evacuate him. 

It was a lucky escape because of the opposition groups led by the Al Qaedah-related Jabhat Tahrir Al Sham who finally mustered enough force and took over the whole of Syria and the governing palaces of Damascus whilst ending his 24-year-old rule and made at an unbelievable, surprising and blustering speed.

It was thanks to the Russian military and finally to President Vladimir Putin, who agreed to grant Assad and his family “spot on” asylum on humanitarian grounds that made the Assad’s flee successful.

Today, the Russian official position remains the same. Moscow will not hand him over to the new transitional government of Ahmad  Al Sharra who overnight downed his dress-wear to a........

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