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The request highlights efforts by foreign allies to shore up a country still shaken by sporadic violence 15 months after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran now rattling the wider region.<br \/>Those allies see Sharaa as crucial to preventing a relapse into sectarian fighting or civil war, after 14 years of civil conflict drove millions of refugees abroad and allowed Islamic State to control swathes of Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s intelligence agency asked its British counterpart MI6 last month to take a larger role in protecting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa after recent assassination plots, according to five people familiar with the matter.After this story was published, Turkey denied that its intelligence agency MIT had made any such request to MI6. 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