In a dramatic twist to the ongoing story of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a report claimed that he had died in a plane crash, only for that information to be quickly dismissed and replaced with a different story. Here’s what happened:
Over the weekend, rumors spread like wildfire that Assad had died in a plane crash. The confusion started when Assad was seen leaving Syria in the early hours of Sunday morning, just as fierce fighting broke out in Damascus. The city was being attacked by a rebel group, Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), and fighters from the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).
According to a flight tracking website, Flightradar24, a plane believed to be carrying Assad took off from Damascus, heading toward the Mediterranean Sea. But then something strange happened—the plane made a sudden U-turn and vanished from the radar. This mysterious event triggered speculation that something terrible had happened. Reuters, citing anonymous sources from Syria, reported that it...
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