US EditionEx-Syrian President Bashar Assad in 'Poisoning Assassination Attempt' in Moscow: report
- Bashar al-Assad narrowly survived an assassination attempt by poisoning while in Russia, as reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights .
- The poisoning allegedly aimed to embarrass the Russian government by accusing it of complicity in Assad's death, according to SOHR.
- Assad was discharged from a Moscow hospital on September 30, and his condition is stable after the incident, according to the Observatory.
- Access to Assad during his hospitalization was restricted, with only family and a close associate allowed to visit him.
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The former Syrian president is said to have been the victim of an attempt to poison. ...
Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized after someone attempted to poison him, but his condition is stable and the deposed Syrian dictator, wanted for war crimes, has already been released from the hospital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday.
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 'poisoned in assassination attempt'
Reports have emerged of an attempted assassination of ex-Syrian president Bashar Assad in Moscow. The former dictator was granted political asylum in Russia after he was deposed ten months ago.
The Syrian Human Rights Observatory claims that former Syrian President Bashar Al Assad would have been poisoned in an assassination attempt in Moscow, where he resides after having received political asylum from Vladimir Putin. Citing a "private source," the Syrian Observatory claims that Al Assad entered "a critical state" in a hospital in the Russian capital with symptoms of being poisoned, but this Monday he was discharged and is out of dang…
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