MI6 is an international player.

MI6 is one of the British spook outfits. It may be involved in the anti-Trump conspiracy with the American Inner State. But, it has a sinister role in Syria's IDLIB Province, where it is said to be orchestrating a false flag operation of a chemical attack to induce the US to attack Iranian and Russian troops and try to protect Al Qaeda troops.

Needless to say this kind of activity is extremely dangerous. Syria's government is winning the war and it does not need chemical weapons to defeat Al Qaeda. The attempt to involve the US on behalf of Al Qaeda is not in our national interest.

Is Basher Assad a brutal dictator? Undoubtedly. But that is the traditional way a government can run an Islamic country. In the absence of a brutal central government an Islamic country will fragment into warring factions.