{"id":105870,"date":"2026-05-09T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:05:14","slug":"syrias-leader-removes-his-brother-from-a-top-government-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105870\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria’s leader removes his brother from a top government post"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) \u2014 Syria<\/a> \u2019s interim leader reshuffled several top government posts on Saturday and removed his brother from a key position that had drawn accusations of nepotism as his administration struggles to unite a divided nation after a brutal civil war<\/a>. <\/p>\n

President Ahmad al-Sharaa\u2019s brother, Maher al-Sharaa, had served as secretary-general to the presidency in Damascus. His initial appointment last year had triggered parallels with the practices under Syria\u2019s former President Bashar Assad<\/a> and his father and predecessor, Hafez Assad.<\/p>\n

Ahmad al-Sharaa led an insurgent offensive that ousted Bashar Assad in December 2024 after a nearly 14-year civil war. During his rule, the younger Assad also placed family members, including his wife and brother, in influential positions.<\/p>\n

Assad\u2019s brother, Maher Assad, was commander of the Syrian military\u2019s 4th Armored Division \u2014 a unit accused by opposition activists of killings, torture, extortion and drug trafficking. The former president\u2019s wife, Asma Assad, headed the influential Syrian Trust for Development.<\/p>\n

In a decree on Saturday, al-Sharaa appointed Abdul Rahman Badreddine al-Aama \u2014 previously the governor of Homs province \u2014 as his brother\u2019s replacement, state news agency SANA reported. <\/p>\n

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It was not immediately clear what position, if any, Maher al-Sharaa would hold going forward. He is a physician who had also previously served as Syria\u2019s interim health minister.<\/p>\n

Syria\u2019s interim leader also appointed new governors for Homs, Latakia, Deir el-Zour and Quneitra provinces and a new information minister, Khaled Zaarour, an academic who was most recently the dean of the faculty of media at Damascus University. He replaces Hamza Mustafa, a former media executive who was head of the private Syria TV network before becoming information minister. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) \u2014 Syria \u2019s interim leader reshuffled several top government posts on Saturday and removed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1828,36615,887,197,36618,36614,1495,81,2485,95,1595,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-105870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-ahmad-al-sharaa","9":"tag-asma-al-assad","10":"tag-bashar-assad","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-government-appointments-and-nominations","13":"tag-hamza-mustafa","14":"tag-international-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","17":"tag-syria","18":"tag-syria-government","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116547126710869720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}