{"id":16673,"date":"2026-05-10T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2026-05-10T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:45:27","slug":"syrian-president-ahmed-al-sharaa-reshuffles-key-posts-removes-brother-from-senior-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=16673","title":{"rendered":"Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa Reshuffles Key Posts, Removes Brother from Senior Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"369\">Damascus (HRNW)-\u00a0Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has carried out a major reshuffle of top government positions, including the removal of his brother from a key administrative post.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"730\">According to reports in Syrian state media, Maher al-Sharaa, the president\u2019s brother, has been accused of nepotism. He had been serving as the secretary-general of the presidency in Damascus, a position his appointment to last year had drawn comparisons with governance practices under former Syrian presidents Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"893\">In an official decree, President al-Sharaa appointed Abdul Rahman Badreddin al-Ama, formerly the governor of Homs province, to replace his brother in the role.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"1053\">It remains unclear what position Maher al-Sharaa will assume next. He is a physician by profession and previously served as Syria\u2019s interim health minister.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1199\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em>Support independent journalism and global reporting here:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1199\" data-is-last-node=\"\">HRNW Donation Appeal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus (HRNW)-\u00a0Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has carried out a major reshuffle of top government positions, including the removal of his brother from a key administrative post. According to reports in Syrian state media, Maher al-Sharaa, the president\u2019s brother, has been accused of nepotism. He had been serving as the secretary-general of the presidency in Damascus,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}