Syrian Salvation Government
Syrian Salvation Government حكومة الإنقاذ السورية Ḥukūmat al-ʾInqādh as-Sūriyyah | |||||||||||
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| 2017–2024 | |||||||||||
Flag (2018–2024)
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Territories controlled by the SSG as of 24 November 2023 | |||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized quasi-state | ||||||||||
| Capital | Idlib | ||||||||||
| Official languages | Arabic | ||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam (Salafism) | ||||||||||
| Government | Unitary provisional government under a technocratic Islamic state | ||||||||||
| Emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham | |||||||||||
• 2017–2025 | Ahmed al-Sharaa | ||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 2017–2018 (first) | Mohammed al-Sheikh | ||||||||||
• 2024 (last) | Mohammed al-Bashir | ||||||||||
| President of General Shura Council | |||||||||||
• 2017–2020 (first) | Bassam al-Sahyouni | ||||||||||
• 2020–2024 (last) | Mustafa al-Mousa | ||||||||||
| Legislature | General Shura Council | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Syrian civil war | ||||||||||
• Formation of the Tahrir al-Sham | 28 January 2017 | ||||||||||
• Formation of the Syrian Salvation Government | 2 November 2017 | ||||||||||
| 27 November – 8 December 2024 | |||||||||||
• Reorganized as Syrian caretaker government | 10 December 2024 | ||||||||||
| 29 January 2025 | |||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 2023 estimate | 4,000,000 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Turkish lira, United States dollar | ||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+3 (Arabia Standard Time) | ||||||||||
Website syriansg | |||||||||||
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The Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) was a de facto unrecognized quasi-state in Syria formed on 2 November 2017 by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other opposition groups during the Syrian civil war. It controlled much of northwest Syria and had an estimated population of over 4,000,000 in 2023. Its de facto capital was Idlib.
After the December 2024 fall of Damascus, the final prime minister of Ba'athist Syria, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, transferred power in Syria to SSG Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir, with all ministers from the Syrian Salvation Government transferring to the same posts in the new caretaker government of Syria.
The SSG was governed as an authoritarian: 34 technocratic Islamic state with two branches: the legislative General Shura Council, headed by a president, and the executive branch, headed by a prime minister.
Although HTS declared its independence from the SSG, the SSG was widely regarded as its civilian administration, although it maintained a degree of operational autonomy from the group.: 31 It has been described as the state-building project of HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.