Al-Assad’s party suspends work indefinitely
Syria’s Baath party announced it was suspending work indefinitely, days after President al-Assad was removed from power, ending more than half a century of the family and party’s rule.
The Baath party central leadership has decided to “suspend party work and activity in all its forms … until further notice”, said a statement published on the website of the party’s newspaper, adding that its property and funds would be handed over to the Interior and Finance Ministries.
Syrian PM says current government to handle transitional phase of country
Syria’s caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir sent his congratulations to Syrians for the “blessed revolution after years of hardship … at the hands of the criminal regime’s gangs”.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, al-Bashir said the current government will manage the transitional phase to take over the files from ministries and institutions of the al-Assad regime.
“We met with the former government and took over the files, ministries, and institutions from the existing ministries and general directorates. Our government in northwest Syria, the Salvation Government, is the one that will assume responsibility for the ministries currently existing in the government,” al-Bashir said.
Syrian opposition leader says group will close ‘notorious prisons’
Syria’s opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also referred to as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, spoke to Reuters news agency and said he would work to dissolve the al-Assad regime’s security force and close its most “notorious prisons”.
He added that his group was working with international organisations to secure possible sites where chemical weapons may be located.
Interim government appointees to be announced ‘within days’, says PM
Syria’s Prime Minister al-Bashir told Al Jazeera that the full appointees of the interim government will be announced within days.
He explained that most government employees have returned to work and reiterated that the door was open for those to join the interim government, except, he said, those who were involved in “the blood of the people” would not be welcomed back.
Starting next week, schools and universities will reopen, he added.
According to HTS, the group that overthrew the Assad regime, the current transitional government is set to rule until March 2025.
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