After the demise of the decades-long Assad rule over Syria, his escape and subsequent asylum in Russia have been stuffed with rumors.
To start with, Bashar Al-Assad and his household had been on a airplane that, on method to a Russian air base, turned off the transponder, main many to consider his airplane had been shot down.
Since arriving in Russia, his spouse Asma has been mentioned to be both asking for divorce and longing to return to her native UK or else affected by a terminal illness.
Now, a Russian Telegram channel has made headlines world wide with the declare that Assad could have been poisoned.
This has sparked fierce on-line hypothesis concerning the destiny of the Syrian dictator.
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Newsweek reported:
“The declare was made by Common SVR, which says it’s run by former and present members of the Russian International Intelligence Service, though it doesn’t supply any proof of those ties.
In a submit written on its Russian and English language channels on Tuesday, it mentioned ‘there’s each purpose to consider that an assassination try was made’ on Assad, including that he had complained to his safety crew ‘about feeling unwell, having hassle respiratory, and requested for medical assist’.
British tabloid newspapers, in addition to social media customers, have picked up the claims, which haven’t been independently verified. Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin and Common SVR for remark by e mail.”
Russia prolonged refuge to Assad, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, after the lighting-strike rebellion led by the insurgent Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ended the 50-year-long rule of the Assad household.
“The Common SVR Telegram channel posted on New 12 months’s Eve that two days earlier Assad had requested for medical assist, after having hassle respiratory and starting to cough violently and choke.”
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