{"id":107260,"date":"2026-05-10T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107260\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:08:10","slug":"syrias-interim-president-moves-his-brother-out-of-a-top-post-in-a-government-reshuffle-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107260\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria’s interim president moves his brother out of a top post in a government reshuffle"},"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’s 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’s 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’s 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’s replacement, state news agency SANA reported.<\/p>\n

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’s interim health minister.<\/p>\n

Syria’s 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":107261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[1828,37068,887,30625,670,22634,37069,37070,95],"class_list":["post-107260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-ahmad-al-sharaa","tag-asma-assad","tag-bashar-assad","tag-brother","tag-damascus","tag-hafez-assad","tag-interim-leader","tag-maher-assad","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116552328914561068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107260","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=107260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}