In the conference, HTS spokesman Hassan Abdel Ghani announced that al-Sharaa had been appointed the President of Syria for the transitional period and laid out the new government's priorities, most of which involved eliminating traces of the deposed Ba'athist regime and rebuilding Syrian institutions.

The capture of Damascus marked the end of the Assad family's rule, which had governed Syria as a hereditary sectarian totalitarian regime since Hafez al-Assad assumed power in 1971 following a coup d'état.

[1] Al-Sharaa held a similar conference in Damascus in late December 2024, where various groups agreed to merge under the Defense Ministry.

[2] Some of the rebel figures who attended that meeting, including Azzam al-Gharib and Murhaf Abu Qasra, have been appointed to either political or military positions in the new administration.

"[4] Spokesman for the Military Operations Command, Colonel Hassan Abdel Ghani, announced that 8 December, the date of the fall of the Assad regime, would be declared a national day.