Syria has appointed Major General Ghassan Ismail as director of air intelligence to succeed Jameel al-Hassan, according to sites on social networks loyal to the Syrian government.
The "Tartous News Network Now" and "News Network Homs", the day before yesterday, that Ismail al-Hassan deputy replaced him as director of Syrian air intelligence. Official Syrian media did not officially comment on the matter.
The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on al-Hassan in 2011, describing air intelligence as one of Syria's four main security agencies.
Amnesty International says more than 80,000 people have been forcibly disappeared by the Syrian government since the war began in Syria.
Last year, the German prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant for Hassan accusing him of committing "war crimes and crimes against humanity" for his role in the Syrian war and the mass protests that preceded it.
The prosecution accused him of overseeing torture, rape and killing "at least hundreds of people between 2011 and 2013."
The Syrian government denies any widespread violations by its security services.
Al-Hassan was quoted as saying in an interview with the Independent newspaper in 2016 that the government should use greater force against the opposition at the beginning of the war.