Syria security chief appears with Assad after arrest claim

Syria's security services chief Ali Mamluk attended a meeting between President Bashar al-Assad and an Iranian official on Wednesday, after a newspaper claimed he was under house arrest for plotting a coup. SANA said Mamluk was among the attendees at the meeting between Assad and the head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, Alaedin Boroujerdi. The news agency and the official social media accounts of the Syrian presidency also published a photo of the meeting, showing Mamluk seated next to Assad. The Telegraph had reported on Monday that Mamluk, who heads the powerful National Security Bureau, was under house arrest after being accused of contacting countries that back Syria's opposition, as well as exiled members of the Syrian regime.

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