Bashar al-Assad sacked his Prime Minister, Imad Khamis, in office since 2016. Engineer Hussein Arnous has been appointed to replace him. According to a press release from the presidency, the president issued a decree "relieving Prime Minister Imad Mohamed Dib Khamis of his duties".

No reason has yet been cited to explain this dismissal, which takes place when Syria, in civil war for almost ten years, is plunged into a serious economic crisis and the Syrian pound has fallen in recent days. of the lowest records.

With AFP and Reuters 

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