Today, 13 November, the UK is hosting a former Al-Nusra commander at an elite London thinktank. Asaad al-Shaibani is now Syria’s foreign minister, having previously led Al-Nusra, a splinter group of Al Qaeda. Co-director of Declassified UK, Mark Curtis, had strong objections: Speaking today at Chatham House is the former spokesman for al-Qaeda in Syria, […]

By Joe Glenton

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