Assad fled Syria following a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), more than 13 years after his crackdown on democracy protests precipitated one of the deadliest wars of the century.
Darwish was detained for months by one of the most feared branches of the former government's many-tentacled intelligence services.
Syrians will not miss Assad, a brutal ruler who failed his people.
The offensive, which took just 10 days to sweep across Syria and take the capital Damascus, stunned the world and brought an end to more than a half a century of brutal rule by the Assad clan.
"We would like to see the situation in the country stabilised somehow as soon as possible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"Their human capital, their experience will allow the country to flourish," Bashir said in an interview published Wednesday.
The Kremlin said on Monday that President Vladimir Putin had made the decision to grant asylum in Russia to Assad
Mohamed al-Bashir has been appointed caretaker prime minister of the transitional Syrian government until March 1, 2025, he said in a televised statement on Tuesday
Assad fled Syria as an Islamist-led rebel alliance swept into the capital Damascus, bringing to an end on Sunday to five decades of brutal rule by his clan.
The UN says it plans to deliver aid to about 150,000 Syrians in besieged areas over the next five days amid a partial truce in the country's civil war.
EU ministers meet in Brussels later amid warnings the migrant crisis could threaten the bloc's survival.
Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have left at least 140 people dead, monitors and state media say.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blames Kurdish militants in Turkey and Syrian Kurdish fighters for the Ankara bombing targeting military vehicles that killed 28, confirming the bomber was a Syrian national.
The first of several convoys carrying badly-needed aid to besieged areas of Syria has arrived at its destination.
France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.
At least 23 civilians are killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns today, residents say, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensify their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
Syria has condemned Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria described it as a violation of its sovereignty.
Rebel groups in Syria have told the BBC they will not stop fighting because they do not believe that Russia will end its bombing campaign in support of the government.
Two suspected people-smugglers go on trial in Turkey accused of causing the death of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi — whose drowning put a human face on the Syrian refugee crisis — and four other people.
