Spymaster | Lebanon, Syria
Spy chiefs Abbas Ibrahim and Tony Saliba at daggers drawn over relations with Syria
Abbas Ibrahim, who seems to have been omnipresent since Michel Aoun became president in 2016, has kept control since then of Lebanon's relations with neighbouring Syria. This alliance of circumstance is being superceded, however, by religious loyalities, driven by the resurgence of personal ambitions, which have opened up the road to Damascus for State Security director Tony Saliba.