A report by the British newspaper Financial Times - published today, Friday - revealed the last moments of the deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before he fled to Moscow, which granted him humanitarian asylum, based on interviews with 12 people familiar with the family's movements and Assad's escape.

US President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that Turkey is the "winning party" in Syria after the fall of the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, considering that Ankara will have the "key to events" in this country.

The Financial Times reported, based on an analysis of bank records, that the regime of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad transferred about $250 million in cash to Moscow between 2018 and 2019, while his family was secretly buying assets in Russia.

A report published by the British newspaper The Times revealed an archive of 1.3 million official documents detailing the systematic "atrocities" and crimes committed by the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad against the Syrians.

While diplomats in Beirut were talking, the opposition in Syria was planning. A year before that meeting, figures in the Islamist opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwestern Syria sent a message to the opposition in the south: “Get ready.”

Bashar al-Assad told almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his rule was crumbling, with aides, government officials and even relatives either deceived or not informed at all, more than a dozen people familiar with the events told Reuters.