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When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in , his late father Hafez was president for three decades. Now, with rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir-al Sham HTS forming a transitional government, the future of the deposed president, his wife and their three children is uncertain.

Asma Fawaz al-Assad (Arabic: أسماء فواز الأسد; née Akhras; born 11 August ) is the former first lady of Syria, married to Bashar al-Assad.

They are now in Russia, where they have been offered asylum, but what lies ahead for them? Russia was a staunch ally of Assad during Syria's civil war and has two key military bases in the Middle Eastern country. In , Russia launched an air campaign in support of Assad that turned the tide of the war in the government's favour. A UK-based monitoring group reported that more than 21, people, including 8, civilians, were killed in Russian military operations over the following nine years.

However, distracted by its war in Ukraine, Russia was either unwilling or unable to help Assad's government stop the rebels' lightning offensive after it began in late November. Hours after rebel forces seized control of Damascus, it was reported by Russian state media that Assad and his family had arrived in Moscow and that they would be granted asylum on "humanitarian grounds".

The inside story of a family dynasty at the heart Syria's civil war. But when Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked about Assad's whereabouts and asylum claim by reporters on Monday, he said: "I have nothing to tell you Of course, such a decision [on granting asylum] cannot be made without the head of state.

The British wife of Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has filed for divorce after expressing dissatisfaction with her life in Moscow, Turkish and Arab .

It is his decision. The Assads' ties to Russia, specifically Moscow, are well-documented. A investigation by the Financial Times found that Assad's extended family had purchased at least 18 luxury apartments in the Russian capital, in a bid to keep tens of millions of dollars out of Syria during the civil war. Meanwhile, Assad's eldest son, Hafez, is a PhD student in the city - with a local newspaper reporting just last week about the year-old's doctoral dissertation.

Amid the chaos at the weekend, Russian state TV reported that officials in Moscow were in talks with "the Syrian armed opposition" to secure Russia's bases and diplomatic missions.