Syrian crisis

Syria's Intelligence Chief Arrested After Coup Attempt

Syria’s chief of intelligence, Ali Mamlouk, has been placed under house arrest after being suspected of planning a coup against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to a report by the British newspaper Telegraph on Monday. Unnamed sources told the Telegraph that Mamlouk got in contact with Turkish intelligence officials following the fall of the strategic city of Idlib in the hands of an Islamist rebel coalition led by Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaida arm in Syria.