Dominic Waghorn of NBC News’ partner Sky News explored the ransacked former home of Bashar al-Assad and his family in Damascus, finding holiday photos, bank statements, designer goods and an extensive underground bunker.
Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, according to a statement attributed to him released Monday. “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” Assad, 59, said on his Telegram account. Assad said he remained in Damascus until the early hours of Dec. 8 — the day the rebels entered Syria’s capital.
“It was a sort of sudden escape given the ‘terrorist offensive,’ as he calls it and as he has always called it, branding the opposition, any opposition, whether it's or not as terrorist factions enforced by external influences,” she said. Syrians across the country celebrated as thousands of people held in Assad’s notorious prisons were released by rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, after his regime fell.
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