The politician Mohamad Al Bashir was appointed as transitional leader in Syria, after the seizure of power in Damascus from the hand of the rebels. He made his leap into politics after the conflict called “Arab Spring“and his last recent position was that of head of the Salvation Government, from the group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS).
Born in Syria in 1983, the Islamist politician graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Aleppo in 2007. Then in Sharia (Islamic law) in the Idlib Universitythe province that served as the main opposition fiefdom of the Al Assad government, where Al Bashir is from.
He entered politics after a series of popular revolts in 2011 against Al Assad, within the framework of the so-called “Arab Spring.” which then spread throughout Syria. Al Bashir was appointed last January as head of the Salvation Government, a political branch linked to the HTS whose headquarters are in Idlib.
Before carrying out this position, it was Minister of Development and Humanitarian Affairs under the then head of that administration in Idlib, Ali Keda. During that period of time, he focused on modernizing the war-torn region and addressing the humanitarian needs of the approximately three million people in that province.
The Salvation Government, Al Bashir’s last position
Established in 2017, this administration has ministries, departments and judicial and security authorities. It was created to help people escaping Damascus control and unable to return to obtain government services.
Their demands ranged from an end to human rights violations in prisons, as well as economic reforms in the region due to its poor living conditions and opposition to the monopoly of decision-making by HTS, which is just one of the dozens of groups that make up the opposition to Al Assad in Syria.
HTS security units attacked protesters with batons and tear gas and continued sporadically for months. Meanwhile, Al Bashir issued a general amnesty decree for perpetrators of crimes who had shown good behavior in order to please the population.
According to the September 2024 report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, created by the UNthe protests followed arrest campaigns against members of the HTS, rival groups, political parties and civilians, including women and children as young as 7 years old, while those detained were subjected to torture.
Syria: rebels appointed Mohamad Al Bashir as the leader of the transition after taking power in Damascus
The rebels who took power in Damascus appointed their head of the transitional government, Mohamad al Bashir, after bringing down Bashar Al Assad’s regime. This will exercise its functions until next March 1, as announced in an official statement broadcast on Syrian television.
“This order was from the General Command. We have been entrusted to run the Syrian Government until March 1, 2025,” Al Bashir said in a televised statement broadcast by the Saudi television channel Al Arabiya. The new government will take measures on security, the dissolution of security authorities and “annulling terrorism laws”although they did not offer more details about it.
Source: Ambito
