Syria’s new leader Al Shara tells Russia to hand over deposed president Al Assad

The National UAE ^ | 1/29/2025 | Khaled Yacoub Oweis

[marcusmaximus]

Syria’s ruler Ahmad Al Shara has demanded that Russia hand over former president Bashar Al Assad and an estimated $2 billion dollars in liquid assets held by the Assad family in Russian banks, during a meeting in Damascus, two sources told The National.

The meeting with a Russian delegation led by deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov also focused on other issues thorny but reached no agreement beyond maintaining contact, the sources said.

“Handing over [Bashar Al] Assad and all senior officers who escaped to Russia was the top of the list,” said a member of the new political staff at Syria's former presidential palace, where the meeting took place. It was the first high-level, face-to-face contact since the fall of the Assad regime and Mr Al Assad fled to Moscow on December 8.

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Surrendering Mr Al Assad “would go a long way towards building up ties” with the new order in Damascus, the Russian delegation were told, the source said.

[DPMD]

You can call me Al.

[kiryandil]

Given that stories are picked up by several, might one expect the same story again to be posted? 06:21 and then 07:00......

Hey - that Syria story ain't gonna troll itself.

marcus is the best one-handed typist on Free Republic.

[kiryandil]

Posting the same story twice within a couple of hours is odd? This early AM EST a lot won't be seeing it. Post it again, huh?

marcus's Special Syria Sock ain't gonna fill itself...

The starch has gone out of the Special Ukraine Sock [was it really starch?], now that Toretsk and Velikaya Novosyolka have both been liberated from the Azov Nazis...

[kiryandil]

Remember that the Iran Hostage situation occured because the US wouldn’t hand over the Shah.

Why don't we ask the last guys that took Russians hostage how that works out?

The Putin isn't Granny Carter.

[dfwgator]

[Kazan]

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