DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian insurgent chief Ahmad al-Sharaa – higher often called Abu Mohammed al-Golani – instructed 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 navy command affiliated along with his group, which is named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, already stated they might grant an amnesty to navy conscripts.
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He would now additionally “dissolve the safety forces of the earlier regime and shut the infamous prisons,” Sharaa stated in a press release 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 have been recognized among the many lifeless and 1000’s extra haven’t but been discovered.
Sharaa additionally stated he was intently following up on doable chemical weapons depots and coordinating with worldwide organisations to safe them. The group had already introduced it might not use these weapons beneath any circumstances.
He reiterated that he would kind a authorities of technocrats. The present transitional authorities is ready to rule till March 2025, in accordance with a press release by his group.
(This story has been refiled to say ‘prisons,’ not ‘jail,’ in paragraph 4)
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily and Timour Azhari; enhancing by Diane Craft)
