Former Al-Qaida member becomes President Syria in the transition
Former Al-Qaida member becomes President Syria in the transition
The former al-Qaida member Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was previously known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, was appointed President of Syria for a transition phase. This decision was announced on Wednesday by Commandant Hassan Abdel Ghani, the spokesman for the Syrian military company. Al-Sharaa thus takes on the role of the head of state of the Syrian Arab Republic and is represented the country in international forums.
transitional government and legislative powers
“We announce the appointment of Commandant Ahmad al-Sharaa as head of state during the transition period. The president is authorized to form a preliminary legislative council that fulfills his tasks until the adoption and streaking of a permanent constitution," said Ghani.
important decisions of military leadership
The military leadership also announced several decisions, including the suspension of the constitution of the country, the dissolution of the parliament and the dissolution of the army of the former regime including the Baath party.
The challenge of reconstruction
al-Sharaa led the most important militant group that initiated the rapid offensive, which led to the removal of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad had ruled the country for decades. Now Al-Sharaa is faced with the Monumental Task to rebuild a country that has been devastated by a civil war for over a decade, in which more than 300,000 people died and millions of others were sold, said the United Nations.
background and career by Ahmad al-Sharaa
The conflict broke out during the Arab spring in 2011 when the Assad regime put down a pro-democratic uprising, which quickly resulted in a comprehensive war. Regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, the USA and Russia were involved, and Isis was able to gain a foothold at short notice.
Before his appointment as President, Al-Sharaa expressed that the Assad regime left “deep social, economic, political and other wounds, the elimination of which requires great wisdom, hard work and doubling of the effort.” He emphasized that a feeling of duty is what Syria needs “more than ever” today.the need for commitment to Syria
“So we were decided in the past to free it, so we have to be so determined to build it up and develop it," added al-Sharaa.
who is Ahmad al-Sharaa?
In his early twenties,al-Sharaa became a Syrian “foreign fighter” by going to Iraq to fight against the Americans when they invaded the country in spring 2003. This finally led him to the notorious Camp Bucca prison in Iraq, which became a central recruitment location for terrorist groups, including later ISIS.
After his release from Camp Bucca, he returned to Syria and began to fight against the Baathist regime of Assad, supported by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who later became founder of ISIS. In Syria, he founded a militant group called Jabhat al-Nusra (in English “Victory Front”), which the al-Qaeda swore loyalty. In 2016, however, he separated from the terrorist group, according to the US center for marine analyzes.
Since then, al-Sharaa, in contrast to al-Qaida, that propagated an unrealistic global sacred warrior, has taken on a more prosaic role with his group, which is now known as HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham). She tries to rule millions of people in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib and provide basic services, according to terrorism expert Aaron Zelin, who wrote a book about HTS.
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