“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.

An account allegedly belonging to Asma al-Assad, wife of former Syrian ... the family fled to Moscow onboard a Russian military plane. These claims seemed to corroborate an earlier statement said to ...

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.