defections

A senior intelligence official escaped to South Korea last year in an unusual senior-level desertion, said Seoul officials on April 11.

A high-level official with Syria’s Foreign Ministry has defected, according to reports on Monday, which have suggested that he left the country.

The wave of defections from the embattled Syrian regime is accelerating, with the defection of two senior diplomats and the possibility of further defections in the weeks to come.