Who is "Mohammed al-Bashir", the head of the Syrian transitional government?
Mohammed al-Bashir was born in 1983 in the "Jabal al-Zawiya" region in Idlib province.
Al-Bashir graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics, Telecommunications, at the University of Aleppo in 2007 and received a degree in Jurisprudence and Law from Idlib University in 2021.
In 2011, he worked as the head of the sensitive installations department of the Syrian Gas Company's gas plant.
Al-Bashir served in the so-called "Syrian Salvation Government" in Idlib province as the Director of Population Affairs in the Ministry of Development. In parallel with the official and legitimate Syrian government, armed opposition groups, such as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, established this government for themselves in 2017. These groups controlled parts of Idlib province, the northern countryside of Hama, and the western countryside of Alepp.
Additionally, he spent two and a half years in the Ministry of Endowments, Dawah, and Guidance of the Salvation Government as the director of religious education.
In 2022 and 2023, Al-Bashir served as the Salvation Government's Minister of Development and Humanitarian Affairs. Al-Bashir was also chosen to serve as the fifth prime minister of the armed opposition's Salvation Government in Idlib on January 13, 2024.
He was chosen by the armed opposition groups to lead Syria's transitional government on Monday, December 9, 2024, following the departure of "Bashar al-Assad" from the country.