President al-Sharaa and no more Baath party: What else has Syria announced?

Cars drive past a roundabout hoisting the new Syrian flag after the ousting of the Assad regime, in Salam City, formerly called Baath City after the ruling party, in Quneitra, Syria [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo]

Nearly two months after the ouster of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, former opposition commander and Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for a transitional period, Syrian state media reported.

“It’s a monumental day,” said Al Jazeera’s correspondent Osama Bin Javaid, reporting from Damascus. “It gives more clarity for the way forward for this country because there was ambiguity on what this new administration was going to look like.”