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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1114/
- Published: 2024-12-09T17:30:33.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-09T17:30:32.000Z
- Description: Bashar al-Assad has been given asylum and is in Moscow.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, World Politics

> [Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360515252/how-it-happened-two-seismic-weeks-toppled-syrias-government?ref=goodoil.news) fled to Moscow and received asylum from his longtime ally, Russian media said Sunday, hours after a stunning rebel advance seized control of Damascus and ended his family’s 50 years of iron rule.  
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> [Thousands of Syrians poured into streets](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360515252/how-it-happened-two-seismic-weeks-toppled-syrias-government?ref=goodoil.news) echoing with celebratory gunfire and waved the revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-year civil war.  
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