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In this episode of #DamascusTime podcast, we host Kamel Saqr, the former director of the media office of the Syrian presidency. We discuss with him his long accompaniment of Bashar al-Assad and his experience of the rapid transformations and great collapse that pursued the regime, Assad's meetings and movements in his last days before his escape, his monitoring of field developments and the change in the course of the war and the seizure of Syrian cities by opposition factions, his contacts with Russian President Putin and how the latter ignored them, and the secrets of his last trip to Russia before his fall, which shows the failure of his attempts to convince his allies. He documented with us the last moments he witnessed from inside the presidential palace as Bashar al-Assad fled and the figures he chose to accompany him, the fate of his brother Maher al-Assad, and what the state of the palace was like after the liberation of Damascus, and many events that our guest answers in this episode. On the platforms of #Mix #For_the_Continued_Talk 00:00 Introduction 04:20 The Presidential Palace after the fall of Assad 08:44 Assad's trip to Moscow before his fall 20:32 Developments in the liberation of Aleppo 30:52 Khamenei's advisor's visit to Assad 34:12 Mediations to stop the fall of the regime 45:10 Assad's speech after the liberation of Homs 53:06 The last moments of Assad's escape 01:03:07 Asma al-Assad's authority and the story of her illness 1:12:49 Assad's statement after his fall 1:18:18 The drug smuggling file 1:19:54 Secret meetings and Israeli threats 1:24:02 Was Luna al-Shibl liquidated? Follow us on different platforms: • X: / mazeejstudios • Instagram: / mazeejstudios • TikTok: / mazeejstudios • Facebook: / mazeejstudios You can listen to the episode via: https://ara.audio/damascus01