Mohammed al-Bashir appointed as Syria's interim prime minister

Mohammed al-Bashir, the head of the administration that ran Idlib in northwest Syria, has been appointed as the country's interim prime minister following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. 

The decision came after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani met with outgoing Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Jalali and Vice President Faisal Mekdad to discuss a transitional government on Monday.

"The general command has tasked us with running the transitional government until 1 March," Bashir said on Tuesday, according to state media. 

Bashir has been the head of the Syrian Salvation Government, a HTS-controlled administration in the Idlib governorate, since January 2024. 

Bashir, an engineer by trade, was born in the Jabal Zawiya region of Idlib during the mid-1980s. According to a CV published by the Salvation Government, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Aleppo. 

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