US EditionEx-Syrian President Bashar Assad in 'Poisoning Assassination Attempt' in Moscow: report
Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized in critical condition after a poisoning attempt in Moscow and released 10 days later, with sources suggesting the attack aimed to embarrass Russia.
- Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized in critical condition after being poisoned while in a heavily guarded villa near Moscow, as reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
- After nine days of medical care, Assad was released from the hospital with his condition described as stable, according to the same report.
- Russian officials have not publicly commented on Assad's poisoning, suggesting that it may have been staged to embarrass the Russian government.
- The report indicated that the true motives behind the poisoning, whether to kill or embarrass Assad, remain unknown.
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The former Syrian leader, who has been in exile in Russia for almost a year, is said to have been the victim of an attempt to poison him on 20 September, according to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (OSFH).
"It is not clear whether poisoning results from an error or deliberate act"
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