{"id":772084,"date":"2026-07-19T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:15:29","slug":"syrias-al-sharaa-appoints-new-intelligence-chief-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772084\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s Al-Sharaa appoints new intelligence chief &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-19T11:48:54+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Damascus<\/p>\n<p>Syrian transitional President<br \/>\nAhmad Al-Sharaa on Sunday appointed new leaders to key security positions,<br \/>\nincluding the National Security Office and the General Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p>According to Syria\u2019s<br \/>\nSANA news agency, under the decisions, Interior Minister Anas Khattab was named<br \/>\ndirector of the National Security Office while retaining his post as interior<br \/>\nminister.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sharaa also<br \/>\nappointed Hussein Al-Salama as deputy director of the National Security Office<br \/>\nand Mulham Al-Shantout as deputy interior minister for security affairs. Major<br \/>\nGeneral Abdul Qader Tahan was named head of the General Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-19T11:48:54+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Damascus Syrian transitional President Ahmad Al-Sharaa on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28430,82242,16993,4,450,451,3,1207,329530,452,453],"class_list":["post-772084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-ahmad-al-sharaa","tag-appointment","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-syria","tag-syrias-al-sharaa-appoints-new-intelligence-chief","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}