Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia and have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a Kremlin source.The Interfax news agency quoted the unnamed source as saying: “President al-Assad of Syria has arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them (him and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds.”Syrian opposition fighters raced into Damascus unopposed on Sunday, overthrowing al-Assad and ending nearly six decades of his family’s iron-fisted rule after a lightning advance that reversed the course of a 13-year civil war.In one of the most consequential turning points in the Middle East for generations, the fall of al-Assad’s regime wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world.His sudden overthrow limits Iran’s ability to spread weapons to its allies and could cost Russia its Mediterranean naval base. It also may pave the way for millions of refugees scattered for