DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian insurgent chief Ahmad al-Sharaa – higher often called Abu Mohammed al-Golani – advised Reuters in a written assertion on Wednesday that he would dissolve the safety forces of the toppled regime of Bashar al-Assad.
His forces swept throughout Syria in a lightning offensive that overthrew 50 years of Assad household rule, changing it with a three-month transitional authorities of ministers that had been ruling a insurgent enclave in Syria’s northwest.
The army command affiliated together with his group, which is called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, already mentioned they’d grant an amnesty to army conscripts.
He would now additionally “dissolve the security forces of the previous regime and close the notorious prison,” Sharaa mentioned in an announcement shared solely with Reuters by his workplace.
Syrians have flocked to the notorious prisons the place the Assad regime is estimated to have held tens of 1000’s of detainees, desperately searching for their family members. Some have been launched alive, others had been recognized among the many lifeless and 1000’s extra haven’t but been discovered.
Sharaa additionally mentioned he was intently following up on doable chemical weapons depots and coordinating with worldwide organisations to safe them. The group had already introduced it will not use these weapons underneath any circumstances.
He reiterated that he would kind a authorities of technocrats. The present transitional authorities is about to rule till March 2025, in keeping with an announcement by his group.
