New Syria PM Says All Religious Groups' Rights 'Guaranteed'

Islamist-led rebels launched a lightening offensive last month, seizing the Syrian capital Damascus after just 11 days, following years of civil war (Credit: AFP)

Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will "guarantee" the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war to return home.

Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which brought to a spectacular end five decades of brutal rule by his clan.