Syrian rebels set fire to the mausoleum containing the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad's Alawite community.
Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al- Assad , at the family's mausoleum.Footage shows the tomb of Syrian president Bashar al- Assad 's father burning, the latest symbol of the dramatic downfall of the family regime.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor told news agency AFP the rebels had set fire to the mausoleum, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad's Alawite community. It also houses the tombs of other Assad family members, including Assad's brother Bassel, who was being groomed to inherit power before he was killed in a road accident in 1994.A satellite image shows a Gorshkov-class frigate offshore of Tartous, Syria on December 10.Russia has seemingly begun pulling its forces from Syria following the fall of the Assad regime over the weekend, satellite imagery suggests.
Russia's foreign ministry has not yet issued a statement clarifying whether its Latakia facility was affected by Israel's strike on the port, but satellite imagery suggests Moscow began pulling its forces out of Syria up to two days before the attack.The satellite images from Planet Labs indicate three ships based in Tartous started to pull away from the coastline on Monday.
They show two guided missile frigates and an oiler moored around 13 kilometres north-west of Tartous. Russian reporting suggests that although the Syrian insurgence has reached areas where the foreign military is installed, no fighting has broken out between them.
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