{"id":49939,"date":"2024-12-16T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/assad-reportedly-releases-first-statement-since-fleeing-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:26:00","slug":"assad-reportedly-releases-first-statement-since-fleeing-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=49939","title":{"rendered":"Assad reportedly releases first statement since fleeing to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Assad was nowhere to be seen as Syrian cities and provinces fell to rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) within a period of 12 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, speculation mounted that he had fled the country as even his prime minister was not able to contact him during the rebel sweep into Damascus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 9 December, Russian media announced that he had been given asylum there &#8211; even though there has not been any official confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Syrian rebel groups are continuing to form a transitional government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HTS, Syria&#8217;s most powerful rebel group, was set up under a different name, Jabhat al-Nusra, in 2011 and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda the following year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Al-Nusra broke ties with al-Qaeda in 2016 and later took the name HTS when it merged with other factions. However, the UN, US, UK and a number of other countries continue to designate it as a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, who previously used the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, has pledged tolerance for different religious groups and communities. But his group&#8217;s jihadist past has left some doubting whether it will live up to such promises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yd0zz5edqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assad was nowhere to be seen as Syrian cities and provinces fell to rebels led by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4116,3019,4157,1204,419,183],"class_list":["post-49939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-assad","tag-fleeing","tag-releases","tag-reportedly","tag-russia","tag-statement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Assad reportedly releases first statement since fleeing to Russia - 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