Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa named president for transitional interval | Syria’s Conflict Information
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2025-01-29 19:30:00
Al-Sharaa was additionally authorised to kind a brief legislative council for the transitional part, state media reviews.
Syria’s de facto chief Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for a transitional interval, the Syrian state information company (SANA) has reported.
Al-Sharaa was additionally authorised to kind a brief legislative council for the transitional part which can perform its job till a brand new structure is adopted, SANA reported on Wednesday, citing army official Hassan Abdel Ghani.
Al-Sharaa is the chief of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former opposition armed group that led the lightning offensive that toppled President Bashar al-Assad final month.
Since Assad’s removing, HTS has turn into the de facto ruling occasion and has arrange an interim authorities largely composed of officers from the native authorities it beforehand ran in rebel-held Idlib province.
Abdel Ghani additionally introduced the dissolution of the armed factions within the nation, which he mentioned could be absorbed into state establishments.
“All army factions are dissolved… and built-in into state establishments,” state information company SANA quoted Abdel Ghani as saying, and in addition saying “the dissolution of the defunct regime’s military” and safety businesses, in addition to the Baath occasion, which dominated Syria for many years.
The bulletins emerged throughout a Damascus assembly of armed factions that fought alongside HTS within the offensive.
The gathering was additionally attended by ministers from the HTS-installed interim authorities appointed in December.
Al-Sharaa, whose group was as soon as an al-Qaeda affiliate, has pledged to embark on a political transition together with a nationwide convention, an inclusive authorities, and eventual elections, which he has mentioned might take as much as 4 years to carry.
He has additionally known as for the creation of a brand new unified nationwide military and safety forces, however questions loom over how the interim administration can convey collectively a patchwork of former insurgent teams, every with their very own leaders and beliefs.
