Five plots to kill Syrian president or ministers were foiled last year, says UN

Report on Islamic State says Ahmed al-Sharaa was targeted twice by IS front group that bombed Damascus church

Five separate plots to assassinate Syria's president or his senior ministers were foiled last year, the UN has said in a report on Islamic State.

According to the report, the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was targeted twice, once in northern Aleppo and another time in southern Daraa, by Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah, an IS front group that carried out a bombing of a church in Damascus last summer.