Russia grants political asylum to ex-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, says Kremlin

Peskov did not comment on Assad’s specific whereabouts. He said that Putin wasn’t planning to meet with Assad.

Assad’s regime ended 11 days after rebels carried out a surprise attack, more than 13 years after his crackdown on anti-government protests ignited Syria’s civil war — which had become largely dormant until the rebel push.

“This victory, my brothers, is historic for the region,” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS) that spearheaded the advance, said in an address at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Sunday.