Mohammed al-Bashir announced Tuesday that he has been tasked with heading a transitional government in Syria until early March 2025 following the collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad.
In a brief televised statement, al-Bashir said he would lead the transitional authority until March 1.
Al-Bashir, born in 1983, was an electrical engineer and head of the “Syrian Salvation Government” (SSG) in Idlib formed in 2017 by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other Syrian militant groups during the Syrian civil war. The SSG wielded administrative and service-related authority in areas under the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) control in northern Syria.
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