Syrian rebel leader says he will dissolve toppled regime forces, close prisons

Reuters

12 December, 2024, 01:10 pm

Final modified: 12 December, 2024, 02:39 pm

Syrian rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa – better in most cases known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani – educated Reuters in a written observation on Wednesday that he would dissolve the security forces of the toppled regime of Bashar al-Assad.

His forces swept all over Syria in a lightning offensive that overthrew 50 years of Assad family rule, changing it with a 3-month transitional authorities of ministers that had been ruling a rebel enclave in Syria’s northwest.

The military hiss affiliated with his team, which is sometimes known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, already mentioned they’d grant an amnesty to military conscripts.

He would now also “dissolve the security forces of the old regime and shut the notorious prisons,” Sharaa mentioned in a observation shared exclusively with Reuters by his place of job.

Syrians have flocked to the rotten prisons where the Assad regime is estimated to have held tens of hundreds of detainees, desperately shopping for their kin. Some had been released alive, others had been acknowledged amongst the pointless and hundreds more have not but been came all over.

Sharaa also mentioned he became once closely following up on possible chemical weapons depots and coordinating with global organisations to to find them. The team had already announced it would now not notify these weapons below any circumstances.

He reiterated that he would invent a authorities of technocrats. The novel transitional authorities is determined to rule till March 2025, basically based completely on a observation by his team.