Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, Gives his last days of presidency, narrated in this report
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was in Moscow when opposition forces began to bombard Syria on November 27th, a recent study has shown. Should have been attending his son’s PhD ceremony but opted to stay in the hotel to follow proceedings. Two days after that, as the opposition gathered control of the city of Aleppo, al-Assad returned to Damascus.
At the urging of Russia to leave before even more blood was shed in Damascus, al-Assad did not go. He himself eventually departed for Russia on the night of December 7-8, and few of his people knew about it.
At that time, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the opposition group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, directed his men not to attack civilians. However, al-Assad sought assistance from Iraq and the UAE and they had more military actions intervening but this was warned internationally.
Al-Assad was expecting to deliver a speech to reassure the people of Syria that everything was okay in Damascus when the opposition was close to seizing the city with the expected backing of Russia. But on the evening of December 7, he got a phone call from the Russians urging him to flee the country to spare more lives. By the morning of December 8, al-Assad had left Damascus; he flew to Moscow from Hmeimim airbase in Russia.
Al-Assad later said that he wished to remain there and battle but was withdrawn by Russia. He was silent for a week because he was waiting for his aides to get out of Syria in one piece and send him his social media account details.
