Russia has agreed to grant asylum to the embattled Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad as he fled from Damascus to escape being captured or killed by rebels.
After Damascus, capital of Syrian was overrun by rebel fighters, the whereabouts of Al-Assad was not initially known, but Russian state media within the Kremlin reported that Al-Assad and his family have arrived Moscow and have been granted asylum in Russia.
The battle that finally collapsed the regime of Assad started ten days ago after the regime was accused of using chemical weapon on citizens who are critical of Assad’s administration.
Assad, who trained as an ophthalmologist in the United Kingdom before taking over leadership from his father, Hafez al-Assad, fled alongside his British-born wife, Asma al-Assad, and their three children, as reported by Syrian state television.
For the past four years, it had appeared that the civil war was effectively concluded.
Assad’s administration had regained control over the majority of Syria’s urban areas with assistance from Russia, Iran, and Iranian-backed militias such as Hezbollah, resulting in largely static frontlines.
Since 2011 Syria has been under crisis leading to civil war, even as so many opposition forces have been killed and thousand jailed. Reports said, Russia has been supporting Assad until lately that Russia withdrew its support.
On November 27, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies announced the initiation of an offensive aimed at “deterring aggression,” accusing the government and its Iranian-backed militias of intensifying assaults on civilians.
This escalation occurred during a period when the government was already weakened by years of conflict, sanctions, and corruption, with its allies, Russia and Iran, seemingly preoccupied and drained by other military engagements.
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group, had recently faced setbacks due to Israeli operations in Lebanon, which included the elimination of Iranian military leaders in Syria, while the ongoing war in Ukraine diverted Russia.
Assad’s forces found themselves vulnerable without support from these allies.
