Mohammed al-Bashir has been appointed as Syria's interim prime minister, which was greeted with a "sigh of relief" in northwestern Syria, according to Al Jazeera's Osama bin Javaid, reporting from Idlib.
"A familiar person" Al Bashir
Al-Bashir, who headed the Idlib-based Syrian Salvation Government, is "a familiar face," he said.
“This is the place where the government of Salvation was created and the skills of government were practiced. This is where al-Bashir was minister of development," he said. "They have won the trust of the people."
bin Javaid said he visited several cities in the region and observed the smooth operation of basic government services, from garbage collection to traffic police manning the sites.
The new interim prime minister will face the challenge, according to Al Jazeera, of uniting a divided country that has been at war for more than a decade.
Who is Mohammed al-Bashir?
al-Bashir is a Syrian engineer and politician who began serving as the fifth prime minister of the self-proclaimed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham administration, the Syrian Salvation Government, in January.
Born in Idlib in 1983, he obtained a degree in electrical and electronic engineering, majoring in communications, from the University of Aleppo in 2007. In 2010, he completed an advanced English language course organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2021, he obtained a degree in Sharia and law with honors from Idlib University. He then worked as an engineer overseeing the creation of a natural gas plant connected to the Syrian Gas Company.
In 2021, after the uprising in Syria against Bashar al-Assad, al-Bashir left his job in government institutions and joined "the ranks of the revolutionaries in the military sector," according to his biography.
