- Syria Live Updates: Al-Assad Wanted to Stay and Fight Rebels, Statement Says The New York Times
- Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad issues his first statement since leaving the country NBC News
- Video Syria’s Assad blames ‘terrorism’ for regime collapse ABC News
- ‘Damascus taken by terror’: Assad makes first comment since fleeing Syria to Russia The Jerusalem Post
- Bashar al-Assad isn’t safe in Moscow The Telegraph