The rebel leader called the Assad regime in Syria the name of the temporary president

The leader of the Syrian rebels, who toppled President Bashar al -Assad last month as the temporary president of the country on Wednesday, was chosen as the former rebels canceled the current constitution, saying that a new charter would be drafted soon.

The appointment of Ahmed Al -Sharra, a rebel that is once in line with al -Qaeda, came as the President of Syria “in the transitional phase”, after a meeting of the previous rebel factions in Damascus, the Syrian capital.

The government news agency SANA said that this announcement was issued by the spokesperson for the military operations sector in the new Syria, Colonel Hassan Abdel -Ghanai.

He was expected to appear in a televised speech in the aftermath of the meeting, but he did not do it immediately, and he remained unclear whether it was. The exact mechanism chosen by the factions chosen as a temporary president was also clear.

Al -Sharra, formerly known as Abu Muhammad al -Gulani, is the leader of Hayat Tarr al -Sham (HTS), a previous Islamic rebel group that led the lightning attack that overthrew Assad in early December.

The group was once subordinate to al -Qaeda, but it condemned its previous relations, and in recent years, Al -Sharra sought to throw itself as a hero of pluralism and tolerance and promised to protect the rights of women and religious minorities.

A new constitution is formulated

The United States had previously put a $ 10 million bonus on the Sharra, but it canceled it last month after a American delegation visited and met with it. Barbara Lev, the highest US diplomat for the Middle East, said after the meeting that the evil coincided with “pragmatism.”

There was no immediate reaction by the Arab world or beyond the appointment of the Sharra, which was expected. Western countries, although they moved to restore relations with Damascus after the overthrow of Assad, are still somewhat cautious about the new Islamic rulers in Syria.

Abdel-Ghani, the spokesperson, announced on Wednesday the cancellation of the country’s constitution-which was adopted in 2012, according to Assad’s ruling-and said that the Shara would be authorized to form a temporary legislative council until a new constitution is drafted.

Abdel -Ghanai said that all armed factions in the country will be resolved, and they will be absorbed in state institutions.

Since the fall of Assad, HTS has become the actual ruling party and has established a largely composed government from officials from the local government that was previously managed in the Idib County, which is controlled by the rebel.

He promised to launch a comprehensive operation for the new government

The interim authorities have promised that it would launch a comprehensive process to establish a new government and constitution, including holding a national dialogue conference and inviting various societies in Syria, although no date is specified.

With the collapse of the former Syrian army with the fall of Assad, Al -Sharra called for the establishment of unified national forces and new security forces, but the questions waving on the horizon on how to collect temporary administration from a group of previous rebel groups, and each of them all have leaders and ideology.

Even Knottier is the issue of the US -backed Kurdish groups that carved an independent pocket early in the civil war in Syria, and he did not stand by the Assad government or the rebels who seek to overthrow it. Since the fall of Assad, there has been an escalation in the clashes between the Kurdish forces and the Turkish -backed armed groups allied with HTS in northern Syria.

The Kurdish -led Syrian democratic forces were not present at the meeting of the armed factions on Wednesday, and there was no immediate comment from the group.

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this month, Asad Al -Shaibani, the new foreign minister in Syria and the HTS official, said that the country needs to help the international community as it begins to rebuild nearly 14 years of brutal civil war.