Politician Mohammed al-Bashir has been appointed interim prime minister of the Syrian transitional government until March, Syrian television, now controlled by the forces that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's regime, reported.
"The interim government of the transitional phase will last for three months, under the presidency of Mohamed al-Bashir," sources from the Syrian Political Administration told television, after a session of the Council of Ministers in which the powers of the former regime's cabinet were transferred to a new executive.
The meeting, which was not attended by those responsible for the areas of interior and defense, was attended by former Syrian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghazi al-Khalali and al-Bashir, among others, to carry out the transfer of portfolios and "get the work underway."
"This mission has been assigned by the General Command. We have been tasked with leading the Syrian government until March 1, 2025," al-Bashir said in a statement broadcast on Saudi television channel Al Arabiya. The new transitional government will begin taking security-related measures, such as "dissolving the security authorities and repealing the laws on terrorism," although no further details were given. Al-Bashir was appointed in January to head the "Salvation Government," an administration in Idlib and other areas that had escaped the control of the Damascus regime, and is linked to the Islamist group Organization for the Liberation of the Levant (Hayat Tahrir al Sham - HTS, in Arabic), which led the 12-day offensive that ended Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule. This "Salvation Government" is a kind of political branch of the Islamist group.
