CAIRO, Sept 14 (Askume) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree appointing former communications minister Mohammad Ghazi Jalali to form a new Cabinet, state media said on Saturday.
The new Cabinet will replace the outgoing government, which has been in a caretaker role since parliamentary elections in mid-July.
Jalali served as Minister of Communications from 2014 to 2016. He has been subject to European Union sanctions since 2014 for “responsibility for the regime’s violent repression of civilians” .
At least 350,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war that erupted in 2011 amid an uprising against Assad’s rule, according to United Nations figures.
