By Abiola Olawale
Days after the government of President Bashar al-Assad was toppled in Syria, the country’s rebel forces have announced the leader of a transitional government.
The Syrian rebels now in power in Damascus appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as head of a transitional government.
The forces announced that al-Bashir will head the transitional government until March 1.
This was announced in a press statement issued on Tuesday.
It would be recalled that this comes after rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized the capital of Syria, Damascus on Sunday, toppling President Bashar al-Assad, who fled the country.
Prior to his being tipped for the role, al-Bashir had been head of the rebels’ so-called Salvation Government in northwest Syria and previously held the role of its development minister.
