Reports have emerged of an attempted assassination of ex-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow.
The former dictator was granted political asylum in Russia after he was deposed ten months ago.
Respected rights group, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, claimed - citing a 'private source' - that Assad was released from hospital on the outskirts of Moscow on Monday.
The source claimed that Assad 'had been poisoned' and that the motive behind the assassination operation was 'to embarrass the Russian government and accuse it of being complicit' in his death.
The report said Assad’s condition was now 'stable'.
