As rebel forces flooded into the city and broke through the walls of the presidential estate, eventually entering the nuclear bunker beneath the mansion, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was forced to leave the capital city of Damascus.
According to information obtained by Knewz.com, video that was made public following the rebel takeover of the Syrian capital provides a thorough glimpse into the heavily guarded underground presidential refuge, complete with supply lines and an extensive system of tunnels.
A lengthy set of stairs that appear to go to the subterranean nuclear bunker opens the video, which was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, and was allegedly shot near President Assad’s home in Damascus.
The stairs terminate at a reinforced door that leads to another steep set of stairs and an inclined track that was probably constructed so that a trolley could carry supplies up and down the tunnel.
The steep tunnel ends in a spacious hallway that appears to have been used for storage, as evidenced by the boxes and other items strewn all over the floor.
The footage shows the passage leading to a series of strong doors that are all left ajar.
The guy recording the video shows what looks to be a kitchen, with its cupboards scraped clean, suggesting that the entire abandoned subterranean nuclear bunker has been looted.
There was a pile of boxes scattered carelessly on the floor of one of the rooms.
The cameraman, however, was unable to enter one of the tightly guarded entrances of the expansive underground “facility”—a door that apparently needs a wheel to open.
The virtual tour of President Assad’s nuclear bunker also showed what looked to be a living room with a coffee table and sofa set, as well as a toilet attached.
A briefcase and a number of goods that were stored on the coffee table were among the items that the individual taking the video could be seen removing from the underground fortress during the virtual tour.
After years of his purportedly repressive assault on anti-government rallies, President Assad was forced to flee his residence together with his British-born wife Asma al-Assad and their three children, ending his reign.
The Assad family is said to have ruled Syria since 1971 and instituted a totalitarian system that has been handed down from one generation to the next.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Muslim terrorist group with historical ties to the infamous al-Qaeda, was one of the rebel forces battling to topple the Syrian president.
According to reports, the al-Qaeda offshoot group’s substantial participation in “Operation Deterrence of Aggression” in Syria has re-examined the organization and its history of enslaving women and girls, torturing them, and trafficking in people and organs.
Founded in 2012, the militant organization HTS was once known as Jabhat al-Nusra until changing its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who had joined the al-Qaeda-led insurgency in Iraq against the US invasion in 2003, founded Jabhat al-Nusra, also referred to as the Nusra Front.
Jolani returned to Syria and founded the Nusra Front in 2012 after President al-Assad halted democracy protests in 2011 and intensified his “brutal” crackdowns.
It is important to note that the notorious terrorist organization ISIS frequently claims responsibility for founding the Nusra Front, with the now-deceased Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi referring to the Jabhat al-Nusra as the Syrian affiliate of the militant group.
Al-Jolani’s gang did, however, ultimately swear allegiance to al-Qaeda, the notorious terrorist organization that carried out the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
Jolani’s military organization broke from al-Qaeda in 2017 and progressively changed its name to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Notably, the militant group has recently attempted to portray itself as a Syrian revolutionary Islamist movement, most likely in an attempt to seize power, even though the United States designated the HTS a foreign terrorist group in 2018.
The HTS has been providing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units with free passage and facilitating their escape to their stronghold in northeastern Syria as part of its efforts to restore its reputation.
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