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December 11th, 2024: Who’s Running Syria’s New Government? & Fighter Jets For Kim
11 Dec 2024
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Syria forms a new interim government under the relatively unknown Mohammed al-Bashir as Israel dismantles Assad's remaining war machine. UNRWA faces new scrutiny as documents reveal Hamas fighters among its top school administrators. Russia reportedly provides fighter jets to North Korea in exchange for thousands of troops, strengthening their alliance. And in today's Back of the Brief: The suspect in the murder of United Healthcare's CEO is extradited to New York to face charges. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Blackout Coffee: https://www.blackoutcoffee.com/PDB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. We'll begin today's show with the latest news from Syria, where a new interim government is taking shape under a relatively unknown figure, Mohammad al-Bashir. This development comes as Israel intensifies its campaign, dismantling what remains of the former President Assad's war machine.
Later in the show, the UN's Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, is back in the news for its links to the Iranian-backed terrorist group, Hamas. Newly uncovered documents reveal that top administrators at UNRWA schools were, in fact, Hamas fighters. Not that the UN is going to care.
Plus, new developments in the growing alliance between Russia and North Korea, as reports suggest that Russia is supplying fighter jets to Pyongyang in exchange for thousands of North Korean troops.
And in today's Back of the Brief, we'll have the latest on the slaying of the UnitedHealthcare CEO as the man suspected of killing him is fighting extradition from Pennsylvania to New York to face the murder charges. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. As the dust settles in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime, the outlines of a new government are beginning to take shape.
Now, Syrian state television reported on Tuesday that the Coalition of Islamist Rebels have named Mohammed al-Bashir as Syria's new caretaker or interim prime minister. In that role, he'll oversee a transitional Syrian government until March of 2025, when the rebels... hoped to establish a more permanent administration chosen by the Syrian people, and that's according to a report from Bloomberg.
While an unknown on the international stage, al-Bashir has a long history with the dominant militant rebel group in Syria known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, which led the 12-day revolt against Assad.
A former electrical engineer, Al Bashir, has been serving as the head of a quasi-government setup by HTS in 2017 called the Syrian Salvation Government, or SSG, because you have to have an acronym. Headquartered in the Idlib province, the SSG has governed territory in rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria
for the better part of seven years, providing assistance to Syrians that were cut off from government services during the civil war. al-Bashir served in a number of ministerial positions over the years before being named the prime minister of SSG last January.
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