Posted in News Syrian dictator Assad issues astonishing first statement since he was toppled: Tyrant insists he wanted to keep fighting and claims Putin ‘forced him’ to flee December 16, 2024 Assad claimed to have left Damascus for Russia’s Hmeimim air base in the early hours of December 8, shortly before Islamist rebels from Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other militias seized the city https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14197581/Syrian-dictator-Assad-issues-statement-toppled-Denies-planned-flee-country-insists-wont-resign.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490