The new prime minister of Syria He asked his compatriots who sought refuge abroad to return to the country after the fall of the president Bashar al-Asad.
mohammad al bashirappointed by the rebel groups as head of the transitional government until March, told the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” that one of its first objectives is “to recover the millions of Syrian refugees who are abroad.”
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“Mine is a call to all Syrians abroad: Syria is now a free country who has earned his pride and dignity. Come back. “We have to rebuild, be reborn, and we need everyone’s help,” he said.
Assad fled Syria after an opposition coalition led by the Islamist group Hayah Tahrir al Sham (HTS) took the capital Damascus after a lightning offensive that put an end to five decades of power of this clan.
Almost 14 years of civil war left half a million dead and forced half the population to flee their homes. Millions of them found refuge abroad.
But the departure of the Assads also leaves the country facing enormous uncertainties and fears of sectarian violence, even though HTS has promised that all religious minorities will be safe in Syria.
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The prime minister told the outlet that “the wrong behavior of some Islamist groups has led many people, especially in the Westto associate Muslims with terrorism and Islam with extremism.”
“Precisely because we are Islamic we will guarantee the rights of the entire population and all sects in Syria,” he said in the interview.
He also guaranteed that they have no problem with anyone “that he has kept his distance from the bloody Assad regime.”
(With information from AFP)
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