World News Desk: Mohamed al-Bashir has been appointed caretaker prime minister of the transitional Syrian government.
Al-Bashir ran the rebel-led Salvation Government before the 12-day lightning offensive swept into Damascus.
In a brief address on state television, Mohammed al-Bashir, said he would lead the interim authority until March 1.
“Today we held a cabinet meeting that included a team from the Salvation government that was working in Idlib and its vicinity, and the government of the ousted regime,” he said.
Mohammed al-Bashir is a figure little known across most of Syria who previously ran an administration in a small pocket of the northwest controlled by rebels.
