Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed General Fahd al-Jassem al-Freij to replace Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, who is killed in a bomb attack.
Freij, chief of staff of the armed forces, was appointed to the post on Wednesday hours after Rajiha was killed in a terrorist bomb attack at the headquarters of the National Security Bureau in the capital Damascus.
Syria’s deputy defense minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar were also killed in the explosion.
