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When Syria’s new interim prime minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, chaired a Cabinet meeting in Damascus on Tuesday, hanging behind him was the flag of the country’s suddenly victorious opposition. That path will largely depend on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel organization that led the charge into Damascus and is now stewarding Syria’s political overhaul. Its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, said a decade ago that there would be no room for religious minorities in the Islamist Syria of which he dreamed about. The leader of Syria's Islamist HTS group, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Sunday. Aref Tammawi / AFP - Getty ImagesSome observers, such as Gerges, see the interim prime minister as little more than an Jolani figurehead.

Persons: Syria’s, Mohammad al, Bashir, Assad, Muhammad Haj Kadour, Abu Mohammad al, Jolani, Ahmad al, ”, Bilal Sukkar, trepidation, Nael, ” Sukkar, Fawaz, Gerges, “, ” al, Della Sera, “ God, Aref Tammawi Organizations: Getty, Harvard Divinity School, London School of Economics, Islamic State, U.S, NBC News Locations: Damascus, Syria, Hayat Tahrir, Homs, Sunday, AFP, United States, Al Qaeda, Syrian, London, Idlib, Italian, Washington, Umayyad, Idlib province

☆ Now that Syria is free of its dictator, the rebels’ biggest challenge is to learn how to govern
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The sound of celebratory gunfire filled the streets of Damascus in the hours following the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. At least 28 people were killed by that celebratory gunfire, the Syrian health minister told Al-Arabiya news channel. People shoot in the air as they celebrate the fall of the Syrian government in Damascus, Syria on Sunday. After the capture of Damascus, the rebels instructed Assad’s Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to continue his duties alongside his cabinet until a transitional team is assigned. ‘Anyone is better than Assad’Residents of Damascus told CNN they were happy Assad is gone but remained concerned over the Islamist ideology followed by the rebels.

Persons: Bashar al, Tahrir, Ugur, …, ”, Assad, Mohammad Ghazi al, Jalali, Industry Mohammad Samer al, Khalil, ” Jalali, ‘ we’ll, ’, “, Abu Mohammad al, Ahmad Al Sharaa, Al Qaeda’s, Louai Beshara, ” Al, Jolani, Aaron Y, Hayat, Abu Mohammed al, Abdulaziz Ketaz, Assad ’, Al Jolani, Ranim, we’ve Organizations: CNN, Islamist, Al, Assad’s, Sky News Arabia, Assad government’s, Industry, US, ISIS, Getty, Syrian Salvation Government, Washington Institute Locations: Damascus, Arabiya, Syria, Israel, Moscow, Homs, Al Qaeda, Iraq, AFP, Idlib, Aleppo, “, UN, Hayat Tahrir, Umayyad, Sunday, Turkey, Kurdish, Iran

DAMASCUS, Syria — Jubilant Syrians waving flags clambered Monday onto a government tank abandoned in the capital city's main square and took selfies. Then they chained it to the back of a truck and dragged it through the streets past cheering crowds. Hours after Assad fled, HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani arrived at a Damascus mosque wearing military fatigues. Still, President Joe Biden on Sunday declared, "At long last, the Assad regime has fallen." “We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime," he said.

Persons: Syria —, Bashar al, Assad, Assad's, Hafez al, Vladimir Putin, Abu Mohammad al, Jolani, he’s, Ahmad al, Al, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, ”, Ghazi al, Maciej Duszczyk, Richard Engel, Corky Siemaszko Organizations: AK, U.S, United Nations, Sunday, Golani, European Union Council Locations: DAMASCUS, Syria, Lebanon, Damascus, Tahrir, Russia, Al Qaeda’s Syria, U.S, Soviet, Qardaha, Syrian, Europe, Britain, Germany, Finland, New York City

☆ Russian state news agencies say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad is in Moscow and given asylum
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, Russian media reported, hours after a stunning rebel advance took over the capital of Damascus and ended the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule. The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Assad and his family being given asylum in Moscow, his longtime ally and protector. RIA also said Moscow had received guarantees from Syrian insurgents of the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic posts in Syria. Syrian state television broadcast a rebel statement early Sunday saying Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been released. They called on people to preserve the institutions of "the free Syrian state."

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Bashar al, Assad, Bashar Assad, RIA, Russia's, Dmitry Polyansky, Abu Mohammed al, Ahmad al, Bassam, Anas Salkhadi Organizations: Tass, RIA, Associated Press, Kremlin, . Security, Golani, U.S, Islamic Locations: Sochi, Moscow, Damascus, Syria, Russia, Turkey, Kurdish

☆ Israel watches Syria with trepidation as 50 years of detente is upended
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Mick Krever | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Since 1974, the buffer zone has been patrolled by United Nations peacekeepers. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and annexed it in 1981. Israeli leaders are watching events across the border in Syria with a mix of trepidation and glee, as 50 years of detente were upended in a matter of hours. Though Israel occasionally offered treatment to casualties of Syria’s civil war, it maintained official neutrality in the conflict. Mordechai Kedar, who specialized in Syria affairs during a 25-year career in Israeli military intelligence, said that the events in Syria were a domino effect from Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

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☆ Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

His mission was to establish Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat Al Nusra. Sharaa is now commanding thousands of men in an armed rebellion threatening to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “This new formation has no relation to any external party,” he said at the time, distancing it from his radical Islamist past. It was also the start of Jolani’s gradual transformation from the classic anti-West jihadist, to a more palatable revolutionary. He conducted operations against ISIS including the 2023 high-profile killing of ISIS leader Abu Hussein Al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

Persons: CNN — Ahmed Al Sharaa, Abu Bakr al, Al, Jabhat Al Nusra, Bashar al, Assad, He’s, guerre Abu Mohammed al, Jolani, Fateh, Al Sham, ”, Abu Hussein Al, Husseini, “, Dareen Khalifa, Hayat Tahrir, Abu Mohamed al, Omar Haj Kadour, Al Qaeda Organizations: CNN, PBS, Palestinian, Israel, Organization for, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Group, Getty, Al Locations: Syria, Iraq, Abu, Syrian, Sharaa, Saudi, Riyadh, Golan, Damascus, Al Qaeda, Hayat, United States, Russia, Idlib, Hama, Brussels, Besnaya, Turkey, AFP

Syria CNN —The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to overthrow authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving the country’s armed opposition. Syria’s opposition forces are decentralized and made up of different ideologies, albeit united by a common goal of upending the Assad regime. As CNN sat down to interview al-Jolani, news broke that forces under his command had captured the city of Hama. Al-Jolani told CNN that incidents of abuse in prisons “were not done under our orders or directions” and HTS had already held those involved accountable. “We are talking about a larger project – we are talking about building Syria,” Al-Jolani continued.

Persons: Bashar al, Assad, Abu Mohammad al, Jolani, Hayat, ”, Abdulaziz Ketaz, upending, “, al, Al Nusra, Al Jazeera, – Ahmed al, –, Ibrahim Hatib, chokehold, ” Al, “ Hayat, Sham, ” CNN’s Mostafa Salem, Isil Sariyuce Organizations: Syria CNN, CNN, Getty, United, Terrorist Organization, Organization for, United Nations, Foreign Terrorist Organization, “, Al, Air Defense Brigade, Assad Russian, Iran’s, Guard, Syrian Air Force, Russian Locations: Syria, Hayat Tahrir, Qaeda, Syrian, Hama, AFP, Aleppo, Iran, Russia, al Qaeda, United States, Al, Iraq, US, Turkey, Idlib, Anadolu, ”, “ Hayat Tahrir

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