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Rebel leader who removed Syrian President Assad has appointed a temporary president – Irvine Times

Rebel leader who removed Syrian President Assad has appointed a temporary president – Irvine Times

The spokesman for the new sector of the Syria government, Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, has announced the appointment of Ahmad al Sharaa as president of the country “in the transitional phase,” said State Agency SANA.

The appointment of Mr Al Sharaa as president of the country was expected.

He announced the cancellation of the country’s constitution adopted in 2012 under the rule of G -N -Assad.

He also announced the termination of the armed factions in the country, which he said would be swallowed up in state institutions and said that Mr Al Sharaa would be authorized to form a temporary legislative council until a new constitution was drafted.

Members of the security forces of the newly formed Syrian government on a truck holding weapons
Members of Security Forces of the newly formed Syrian Government (Leo Correa/AP)

Mr. Al Sharaa, previously known as Abu Mohammed Al Golani, is the leader of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, a former Islamist rebel who led the lightning offensive that removed Mr Assad last month.

The group was once linked to al-Qaeda, but since then it has denied its previous relationships and in recent years Mr. Al-Sharaa has been striving to present itself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.

The United States had previously set up a set of $ 10 million (8 million British pounds) to Mr Al Sharaa, but canceled it last month after a US delegation visited Damascus and met him.

Following Mr Assad’s fall, HTS has become a factual ruling party and has established a temporary government largely made up of local government officials, which has previously been running in Idlib province held by rebels.

While the former Syrian army collapsed with the fall of Mr. Assad, Mr Al Sharaa called for the creation of a new united national army and security forces, but the questions arose how temporary administration could gather a patchwork for the former rebel groups, each with each with Own leaders and ideology.

Even KNOTTIER is the question of US -backed Kurdish groups who carved an autonomous enclave at the beginning of the Syria Civil War, they have never completely argued with the Assad government or the rebels seeking to overthrow it.

After Mr Assad’s fall, an escalation was observed in the clashes between Kurdish forces and the armed groups-backed by the Turks, ally with HTS in northern Syria.

The Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces did not attend a meeting on Wednesday of the country’s armed factions and there was no immediate comment from the group.

Mr. Al Sharaa was expected to appear in a television speech after the meeting, but it was clear if he would do so. The exact mechanism in which the factions chose him as a temporary president was also not clear.

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