Syria’s transitional government was announced late on March 29, in an inauguration ceremony at the People’s Palace in Damascus. The 23-member cabinet contains 9 ‘independent’ ministers, 7 former members of the Salvation Government and 5 people who previously held senior government positions under Bashar al-Assad, pre-2011. The cabinet contains 19 Sunni Arabs, one Christian (Hind Kabawat, Minister of Social Affairs & Labor), one Druze (Amjad Badr, Minister of Agriculture), one Alawite (Yaroub Badr, Minister of Transport) and one Kurd (Muhammad Abdulrahman Turko, Minister of Education).
Assessing Syria's Transitional Government
Significant change, as HTS cedes control of a majority of Syria's cabinet.
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