Syria's Interior Ministry announced May 8 the arrest of deposed regime brigadier Khardal Ahmad Dayyub (Dioub), a former head of Air Force Intelligence in Daraa, for his involvement in systematic human rights violations committed against civilians. Dayyub is accused of running an "assassination committee" in Daraa, as well as involvement in the chemical attacks on Eastern Ghouta during his later service in the Damascus regional branch. He is also said to have had a key role in coordination with Hezbollah and Iranian forces in Syria that were introduced to back up the Bashar Assad dictatorship. (SANA)

Despite some confusion in the reportage (e.g. Anadolu Agency), Dayyub appears to be implicated in the 2018 chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta, not the far deadlier 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta, which resulted in threats of US military intervention.