Five separate plots to assassinate Syria’s president or his senior ministers were foiled last year, the UN has said in a report on Islamic State. According to the report, the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was targeted twice, once in northern Aleppo and another time in southern Daraa, by Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah, an IS front group that carried out a bombing of a church in Damascus last summer. A separate regional intelligence official also confirmed last autumn that Sharaa had faced assassination attemptsthat were foiled after Syria’s security establishment was provided with intelligence from a neighbouring country on the plots. IS
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