
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani warned Syrian officials that Luna al-Shibl, a close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, was a spy months before she died in a suspected assassination disguised as a car accident, according to media reports.
The late Iranian commander confronted Ali Mamlouk, head of Syria's National Security Bureau, in late 2019 after seeing al-Shibl leave his office, according to a document reviewed by Al-Majalla magazine published this week.