What will western and Syrian spy services be focusing on following the fall of Bashar al-Assad? Is Russia and Iran’s withdrawal from Syria similar to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan? Were the security services predicting that the Assad regime would collapse so quickly?
Join David McCloskey and Gordon Corera as they answer all these questions and more in this emergency episode of The Rest Is Classified.
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