“Moscow asked them (the Hmeimim base leadership) to secure our transfer to Moscow,” said Assad. The family arrived in the city via a Russian military plane on the evening of Dec. 8, according to him.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

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Another Saudi plane loaded with humanitarian aid landed in Damascus on Wednesday as part of a relief bridge launched by Saudi Arabia for Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.