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 out of the country, according to a statement attributed to him and released on Monday. “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” Assad, 59, said in a written statement shared on Telegram. Assad said he had remained in Damascus until the early hours of Sunday, Dec. 8 — the day rebels entered the Syria’s capital.
Assad said that as rebel forces swept through the city, he moved north to Lattakia in coordination with Russian allies 'to oversee combat operations.' It was at the nearby Hmeimim airbase when 'it became clear that our forces had completely withdrawn from all battle lines and that the last army positions had fallen.
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