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Syrian Salvation Government حكومة الإنقاذ السورية Ḥukūmat al-ʾInqādh al-Sūriyya | |||||||
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2017–2024 | |||||||
Capital | Idlib (de facto) Damascus (de jure) | ||||||
Largest city | Damascus | ||||||
Official languages | Arabic | ||||||
Religion | Islam | ||||||
Government | Unitary provisional government under a technocratic Islamic state | ||||||
Emir of Tahrir al-Sham | |||||||
• 2017–present | Ahmed al-Sharaa | ||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||
• 2017–2018 | Mohammed al-Sheikh (first) | ||||||
• 2024 | Mohammed al-Bashir (last) | ||||||
President[a] | |||||||
• 2017–2020 | Bassam al-Sahyouni | ||||||
• 2020–2024 | Mustafa al-Mousa | ||||||
Legislature | General Shura Council | ||||||
History | |||||||
• Establishment | 2 November 2017 | ||||||
• Reorganised into the Syrian Transitional Government | 10 December 2024 | ||||||
Population | |||||||
• Estimate | 4,000,000 (2023) | ||||||
Currency | Turkish lira[4][5] (TRY) | ||||||
Website https://syriansg.org | |||||||
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The Syrian Salvation Government (SSG; Arabic: حكومة الإنقاذ السورية, romanized: Ḥukūmat al-ʾInqādh al-Sūriyya) was a de facto unrecognized quasi-state in Syria formed in November 2017 by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other Syrian opposition groups during the Syrian civil war.[6] It controlled much of northwest Syria, and had an estimated population of over 4,000,000 in 2023.[7] Its de facto capital was Idlib.
After the December 2024 Fall of Damascus,[8] the final prime minister of Ba'athist Syria, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, transferred power in Syria to SSG Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir, with all ministers from the Syrian Salvation Government transferring to the same posts in the new transitional government of Syria.[9]
The SSG was governed as an authoritarian[10]: 34 technocratic[11][12][13] Islamic state with two branches: the legislative General Shura Council, headed by a president, and the executive branch, headed by a prime minister.
Although HTS declared its independence from the SSG, the SSG was widely regarded as its civilian administration,[14][13] although it maintained a degree of operational autonomy from the group.[11][10]: 31 It has been described as the state-building project of HTS leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa.[13][15]
On Wednesday he visited Aleppo's citadel, accompanied by a fighter waving a Syrian revolution flag - once shunned by Nusra as a symbol of apostasy but recently embraced by Golani, a nod to Syria's more mainstream opposition, another video showed.
'He's really important. The main rebel leader in Syria, the most powerful Islamist,' said Lund.
'They have adopted the symbols of the wider Syrian uprising... which they now use and try to claim the revolutionary legacy – that 'we are part of the movement of 2011, the people who rose up against Assad, and we are also Islamists'.
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