President Bashar al-Assad's government is fighting both rebel groups and the jihadists of Islamic State. Khaled did not simply wake up in Raqqa to the smell of death and dust, and decide to become an assassin. Political Security, State Security... and then to the Central Prison where I stayed for a month before they released me. When he was freed from prison, Khaled took up arms against the government. And he would soon find an even darker role in Syria's savage conflict - as an assassin for the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

Source: The Star May 04, 2018 04:18 UTC