Turkish Spy Chief Visits Syria in Rush for Influence After Assad

Turkey’s spy chief Ibrahim Kalin visited the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, TV channel TVNet reported, a rare public appearance by the country’s top intelligence official as world powers jostle for influence in the wake of the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

Footage showed the head of the National Intelligence Organization at the city’s Umayyad Mosque, four days after Syrian rebels led by HTS, or the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, toppled the longtime Syrian ruler in a lightning advance.