The whereabouts of Syria’s defected Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Jihad Makdissi remain shrouded in mystery amid new reports suggesting the man might have been kidnapped by the Lebanese’s Hezbollah group and handed over to the Syrian regime.
UPDATE:
Report: Former Syria FM spokesman in U.S., cooperating with intelligence
The Guardian reports that Jihad Makdissi, who was the public face of the Assad regime’s 20-month-old battle with rebels, fled to Washington with the aid of U.S. officials.
By Al Arabiya
The whereabouts of Syria’s defected Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Jihad Makdissi remain shrouded in mystery amid new reports suggesting the man might have been kidnapped by the Lebanese’s Hezbollah group and handed over to the Syrian regime.