Syria’s deposed President Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow and have been granted political asylum. This is reported by several Russian news agencies, citing sources in the Kremlin, write Reuters. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, the family must have been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds. There has been a lot of speculation about where Assad went after the rebels took over power in Damascus. Russia’s foreign minister said Sunday morning that Assad had left Syria.
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