Today in russian news:
https://ria.ru/20200608/1572605994.html
Muhammad Hussein Saud, from the city of Palmyra for some time was recruited by the Islamic State. He fled to At-Tanf, and there he met with British intelligence.
Muhammad said that he was recruited by the British to “… work like a spy, like a traitor…The task is to photograph important objects of Mukhabarat, the Russian and Syrian army”
British experts needed information about “important sites in Russia and Syria” … in order to arrange a terrorist attack in the future.