One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation.

"We will announce in the coming days a committee charged with preparing the National Dialogue Conference, a direct platform for discussions, to listen to different points of view on our future political program," al-Sharaa promised in a prerecorded television speech on Thursday.

The results of the National Dialogue Conference will then serve as platform for the country's new "Constitutional Declaration," al-Sharaa explained.

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution."

After he was officially announced as Syria's transitional president, al-Sharaa said "Syria's first priority is to fill the governmental vacuum in a legitimate and legal way."

Al-Sharaa also proclaimed the end of Syria's previous parliament and constitution, which dated back to 2012 and was put in place under former dictator Bashar Assad.

Syria's new president had further announced the dissolution of the Syrian army as well as armed factions that were involved in ousting Assad, including his own HTS militia.

In the future, all of Syria's armed forces — except the US-backed Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country's northeast — will be organized under one roof as a unified national army.

In the view of Manhal Baresh, a London-based Syrian researcher,........

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