Two Syrian sources acknowledged there became as soon as a extraordinarily excessive probability that Assad might maybe perhaps merely be pleased been killed
Reuters
08 December, 2024, 04:10 pm
Closing modified: 08 December, 2024, 04:18 pm
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane in Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior military officers acknowledged, as rebels seized town and ousted him from energy after 24 years as president.
Assad has not spoken in public on account of the surprising insurrection contrivance per week within the past, when insurgents seized northern Aleppo in a shock assault sooner than marching into a succession of cities as frontlines crumbled.
His whereabouts now – and these of his essential other Asma and their two formative years – remain unknown.
A Syrian Air plane took off from Damascus airport across the time the capital became as soon as reported to be pleased been taken by rebels, in step with records from the Flightradar web jam.
The plane initially flew in direction of Syria’s coastal situation, a stronghold of Assad’s Alawite sect, nonetheless then made an abrupt U-flip and flew within the reverse route for a jiffy sooner than disappearing off the intention.
Reuters might maybe perhaps not without extend ascertain who became as soon as on board.
Two Syrian sources acknowledged there became as soon as a extraordinarily excessive probability that Assad might maybe perhaps merely be pleased been killed if he became as soon as on the plane, because it took a shock U-flip and disappeared off the intention in step with records from the Flightradar web jam.
“It disappeared off the radar, maybe the transponder became as soon as switched off, nonetheless I judge the larger probability is that the plane became as soon as taken down…,” acknowledged one Syrian source without elaborating.
The plane departed Damascus rapidly after rebels had taken the central city of Homs, reducing the capital off from the waft where Assad’s Russian ally has air and naval bases.
The correct trackable flight departing Syria visible after tiresome night on Flightradar24, a flight monitoring jam, left Homs for the UAE, nonetheless that became as soon as hours after rebels had captured town.
As the insurrection contrivance gathered steam over the final week, there became as soon as hypothesis that he might maybe perhaps merely seek refuge in Moscow or along with his other main ally Iran.
Syrian suppose media acknowledged on Saturday he became as soon as aloof in Damascus. They haven’t commented on his whereabouts since.
He became as soon as visiting Moscow correct sooner than the insurrection offensive and Iranian records companies published a photograph of him on Saturday that they acknowledged showed him meeting a top Iranian decent in Damascus.
