Russian media reports that fleeing Syrian leader, Bashir al-Assad is in Moscow and has been granted asylum by Russia.
Opposition fighters in Syria advanced rapidly and took control of Damascus, the country’s capital on Sunday after a thirteen-year that caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives while millions were injured and the country in total ruin.
Opposition fighters declared in Damascus that “al-Assad’s 24-year rule has come to an end” as citizens seen in triumphant jubilation took over streets of Damascus and other cities.
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Media reports monitored by Nigerian Anchor in Abuja indicated that the anticlimax dawned for the al-Assad regime when rebel forces seized several strategic cities in a lightning offensive.
Bashir al-Assad is the latest leader of a middle eastern country to fall following the Arab Spring revolution or violent street protests leading to regime changes which started after the Tunisian spark in 2011.
was a series of antigovernmental protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
al-Assad inherited power in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez Assad.
He was an eye doctor studying in London when his father died. His ascendancy was greeted with cautious optimism, hoping that it would usher a new era of political change in Syria.
