WEB DESK: Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been appointed as president for the “transitional period.”
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for the “transitional period”, state media report, seven weeks after he led the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad.
The announcement was made by the spokesperson for Syria’s new de facto government’s military operations sector, Hassan Abdel Ghani.
Abdel Ghani also announced the dissolution of the armed factions in the country, which he said would be absorbed into state institutions.
“All military factions are dissolved … and integrated into state institutions,” the state news agency quoted Abdel Ghani as saying.
He also announced, “the dissolution of the defunct regime’s army” and security agencies, as well as the Baath party, which ruled Syria for decades.
The announcements came during a event in Damascus on Wednesday attended by the commanders of factions who fought alongside the rebel alliance led by Sharaa’s Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). It was entitled the “Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution”.