Much of Al-Assad's immediate family lived in UAE (his sister and their family, I believe his mother also lived in the UAE) for a very long time during the civil war. I could see them hosting him.
The "Dubai Unlocked" investigative reports reveal that US sanctions have not prevented prominent figures connected to the Syrian regime from acquiring and investing in the small emirate, raising questions about the perks enjoyed by regime insiders there. The project's documents contain details...
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Some of his relatives already fled to UAE after he lost power. Apparently.
In the final hours of what appeared to be the imminent collapse ...
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He is no Idi Amin though, I remember seeing him in Jeddah as a young child.
Would be nice to see Bashar hanging from a rope in Damascus. I don't see that happening unless al-Sharaa is going way overboard to accommodate the Russians.
I don't think that the Tartus Naval Base and Khmeimim Air Base are used by Russia any longer without the authorization of the government. Quite unclear how much room the Russians have been given or if they are still allowed to use those bases.
I am seeing conflicting reports.
In any case it is quite an embarrassment for Syria and the current government to allow those bases to remain considering what the Russians have been doing against the Syrian people for almost 10 years.
Russia cannot do anything for Syria anyway or offer it anything that Arabs/Turkey/West cannot. Unless he wants to play on two horses at once and hope to use Russia as a leverage. That and obviously getting Bashar and others to stand trial in Syria which I think is unlikely to occur anyway regardless of Syrian concessions.