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The politics of Syria is currently in a transitional period led by the Syrian transitional government. The seat of the government is located in Damascus , Syria . The previous government consisted of a President , a Prime Minister , and a legislative council with 250 seats.
On 18 December, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (Syrian National Coalition, SNC), which operates the Syrian Interim Government in Turkish-occupied zones, expressed its support for al-Bashir's government. The SNC called for a national conference and for the formation of a government that would be "inclusive ...
Divisions from the conflict run deep, and many worry about revenge killings, whether against former figures of Assad’s state or — more frightening — whole communities seen as backing the old system. The civil war displaced half of Syria's prewar population of 23 million.
The army, especially its elite forces, is tied to the regime itself in various ways, most prominently through the use of sectarianism. Even people who had never heard of Syria before know now that the regime is based on one minority in the country – about 10% of the population; the Alawites. [408]
As Syrian rebels bring an end to the Assad family’s 50-year reign in Syria, Donald Macintyre looks at the man behind 12 years of civil war and bloodshed How Bashar al-Assad went from London ...
Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad and seized control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a ...
ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have ousted the regime of Bashar ...
The prime minister of Syria (Arabic: رئيس وزراء سوريا, romanized: Raʾīs wuzarāʾ Sūriyā) is the head of the cabinet of Syria. [1] Since the fall of the Assad regime , the current prime minister of Syria is the head of the Syrian transitional government .