In Beirut or Syria… Conflicting accounts of the arrest of the “Butcher of Baniyas”—and what is the Turkish intelligence connection?

Al Jadeed: A Lebanese security source told Agence France-Presse on Friday that Ali Kayali, accused of responsibility for killing hundreds of people in western Syria in 2013 and whose arrest Damascus announced on Thursday, was arrested in Lebanon without the knowledge of the Lebanese authorities. The source, requesting anonymity, said that…
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