Video: Angry crowd lynches Bashar al-Assad's cousin

Bashar al-Assad's cousin, Suleiman Hilal al-Assad, was lynched in Syria.

WARNING: The video is graphic! Watch at your own discretion!

"With the arrival of the vanguard of the Syrian rebels in Latakia, it was announced that Suleiman al-Assad, who led the national defense forces, was killed," the article posted on Alkhali24 says.

Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov said that Assad was safe in Russia. According to him, Moscow acted as is required in such situations.

On December 8, anti-government forces in Syria captured the city of Homs and entered the capital city of Damascus. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held talks with the parties to the conflict and decided to step down. He then left Syria and flew to Russia.

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Ba'athist Syria officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the rule of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. From 1971 until 2024, it was headed by the Assad family, and was therefore commonly referred to as the Assad regime. The state emerged in the wake of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état and was led by Alawite military officers. President Salah Jadid was overthrown by Hafez al-Assad in the 1970 Corrective Revolution. Resistance against Assad’s rule led to the 1982 Hama massacre. Hafez al-Assad died in 2000 and was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad. Protests against Ba'athist rule in 2011 during the Arab Spring led to the Syrian civil war, which weakened the Ba'athist government's territorial control. In December 2024, a series of surprise offensives by various rebel factions culminated in the regime's collapse. Russia stated that al-Assad fled to Moscow and was granted asylum for humanitarian reasons.