🇸🇾⚡- Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad, releases a public statement. He becomes the first official close to the previous Syrian President to go public after the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic.

🇸🇾⚡- "There was no plan, not even a backup plan to leave Damascus, let alone Syria," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "Over the past 14 years, Syria has gone through circumstances that were no less difficult and dangerous than those it went through at the end of November and the beginning of December [2024]" - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "Before the recent events began, I traveled from Damascus to Moscow on November 20th 2024. My mother was in Moscow at the time, after her bone marrow transplant at the end of the summer, due to the isolation requirements associated with the treatment," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "I was supposed to stay in Moscow for a while, but due to the deterioration of the situation in Syria, I returned to Damascus. My mother remained in Moscow," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "On Saturday afternoon, rumors spread that we had fled the country, and a number of people contacted me to confirm if we were in Damascus. To deny this, I went to al-Nairbeen Park in al-Muhajireen neighborhood, Damascus, and took a photo of myself that I posted on my personal account," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "Until then, despite the distant sounds of gunfire, there was nothing out of the ordinary that we had become accustomed to since the early years of the war," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "The situation remained that way, as the army prepared to defend Damascus, and there was no indication that things were deteriorating... until the news of the army’s withdrawal from Homs. Which was as surprising as the army’s withdrawal from Hama, Aleppo and the Idlib countryside had been before it," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "However, there were no preparations or anything suggesting that we would leave, until an official from the Russian side arrived at our house in the al-Maliki neighborhood after midnight, that is, on Sunday morning, and requested that the President move to Latakia for a few days due to the seriousness of the situation in Damascus, and the possibility of supervising the leadership of the battles from there," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "I met my uncle Maher al-Assad at the Russian base in Latakia," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾⚡- "They [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham] began successively attacking the [Russian Latakia] base with drone attacks," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Moscow demanded the base to secure our transfer to Moscow," - Hafez Bashar al-Assad, son of Bashar al-Assad.

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against the Lebanese-Syrian border.

🇮🇶⚡- Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid, has filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister al-Sudani and Finance Minister Sami over delays in the payment of salaries to civil servants in Iraqi Kurdistan.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump was interviewed on FOX News today by Bret Baier.

“Do you see J.D. Vance as your successor?” He was asked.

“No.” President Trump responded.

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🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes between the Syrian National Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Tishrin Dam area, SDF-controlled northern Syria.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 2 Russian cruise missiles launched, heading towards Kirovograd, Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian air defense active over northern Kherson region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- A third cruise missile heading towards Kremenchug, Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian cruises pass Kirovograd and enter Cherkassy region, just one region south of Kiev.