Publish date30 Jan 2025 - 9:50
Story Code : 665914

Syria militants’ leader Jolani appointed as new president

The leader of Syria militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that took over the country in a surprise attack in December has been appointed as the new president of the Arab country.
Syria militants’ leader Jolani appointed as new president
Syria’s “presidency” carried the report on Wednesday, saying that the HTS had been dissolved and its commander Abu Mohammed al-Jolani appointed to the position.
 
Hassan Abdul Ghani, the new spokesman of the country’s military operations department, also announced elimination of Syria’s constitution and parliament as well as military and security agencies.
 
The HTS used to occupy some areas in northern Syria after being pushed back by Damascus and its allies following the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in the country in 2011.
 
On December 8, however, it seized huge swathes of the rest of the country during lightning advances amid heavy Israeli airstrikes against the nation, which Tel Aviv had begun carrying out under the pretext of preventing outbreak of the violence into the occupied Palestinian territories.
 
Despite the heavy toll that the attacks have taken on Syria’s civilian and military infrastructures, Jolani has said he did not seek any conflict with Tel Aviv.
 
HTS’ former commander is now expected to form an interim “legislative body” until a new “constitution” was approved, Ghani said.
 
Under Jolani’s “presidency,” all the militant outfits that used to wage violence against Syria since 2011 would be dissolved and integrated into “state institutions,” Ghani added.
 
Syria’s new authorities have, meanwhile, called on Russia to compensate the damage that the latter had afflicted on the HTS and its allies during Moscow’s close cooperation with Damascus against foreign-backed militancy.
 
More than 12,000 militants were reportedly killed as a result of Damascus and Moscow’s operations.
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