Russia says it did not participate in negotiations
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Islamist rebels declared they had ousted Assad after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, ending his family’s decades of autocratic rule after more than 13 years of civil war. “As a result of negotiations between B. Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to resign from the presidency and left the country, giving instructions for a peaceful transfer of power,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.There were unconfirmed media reports that Assad had been visiting Moscow, where his elder son studied, when rebels reached Aleppo late last month, before returning to Syria.
The ministry’s statement said Russia’s two military facilities in Syria had been put on a state of high alert, but played down an immediate risk to them.Russia operates the Hmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province which it has used to launch airstrikes against rebels in the past, and has a naval facility at Tartous on the coast.
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