BASHAR Al-Assad Reportedly he spends his exile video games. His hobby of the selection creates an unexpected contrast with his earlier public comments to play.
Assad, who replaced his father as President of Syria in 2000, was expelled in December 2024 after the rebel attack confiscated Damascus. Before the fall, he survived more than ten years of war with support from Iran and Russia. He faces a widely documented accusation of national torture, mass deaths in retention and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including war crimes. Regional dynamics remains on the basis of an order after Assad, led by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, upset, with recent reports pointing to renewed political problems and sectarian tensions, as well as cautious diplomatic resetting with neighbors.
Assad's Moscow exile routine allegedly includes hours of online gaming
When the insurgent troops entered Damascus in December 2024, Assad fled to Moscow, where he was granted political asylum – which Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved, according to previous statements by Kremlin officials. The new report of the German Outlet Die Zeit now states that an excluded politician spends his days playing online video games in a luxurious high -rise in the Russian capital. In addition to his gaming sessions, which is said to run for hours every day, sometimes visits a shopping center located under his apartment, according to the same source.
Assad once claimed he's not playing online games
In addition to playing online games, the message will not get into further details of Assad's game habits. However, the mere expected existence of such habits is already in sharp contrast to what Assad said almost two decades ago when he refused the idea that he was a player during an interview with Diane Sawyer of February 2007.
Now 60 -year -old Assad had a lot of time to consider his attitude to playing games in 18 years that followed. His political asylum in Russia was given for “humanitarian” reasons, Russian intelligence agencies reported in 2024. According to a statement by the Russian ambassador to April 2025 in Iraq Elbrus Kutrashv was Assad condition that he would resign completely from political activities and media. Given how he was from the escape from Damascus outside the public eye, he seems to adhere to these conditions, which also provided asylum for his closest family.
In the spring of 2025, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said he demanded Assad's edition of the Russian government. The application, submitted as a condition for permitting the Moscow military presence in Syria, was rejected.
Sources: FT, JPOST, Engadget, BBC
