A report has revealed that British intelligence officers have been talking to the Syrian regime in order to take on the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
According to The Mirror, MI6 members have been reaching out to President Bashar al-Assad's senior foreign office diplomats and spy networks for months in the Syrian capital Damascus in the run-up to Gulf War 3.
It, however, contradicts Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond's statement that said Britain will not slip into a "poisonous pact" with the Assad regime because such an alliance would not be "practical, sensible or helpful.
