Turkey asks Britain’s MI6 to step up protection of Syria’s Sharaa

Turkey’s 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.

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.

Those allies see Sharaa...