Network of Syrian, Iraqi spies helped US kill Soleimani — report

A series of Syrian and Iraqi informants are suspected of providing the US with the information that led to the killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani last week, according to a Reuters exposé.

The suspected informants — two security employees at Baghdad airport and two workers in private Syrian airline Cham Wings — gave the intelligence about Soleimani’s secret flight from Damascus to Baghdad, the news agency reports, quoting “two security officials with direct knowledge of Iraq’s investigation, two Baghdad airport employees, two police officials and two employees of Syria’s Cham Wings Airlines.”

A member of Iraq’s National Security Agency is quoted as saying there are “strong indications that a network of spies inside Baghdad Airport was involved in leaking sensitive security details.”