Defense minister for Syrian opposition resigns
 

The minister of defense for Syria's opposition government has resigned following disagreements with the body's head, opposition sources said on Monday, highlighting divisions among President Bashar al-Assad's opponents. Saudi-backed dissident Asaad Mustafa was appointed to his post in **vember as part of a plan by the opposition National Coalition to administer rebel-held areas of the war-torn country. Mustafa, in his sixties, served as minister of agriculture under Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, but defected after the uprising against 40 years of family rule started in 2011 and turned into a civil war. But a source in the Coalition said Mustafa left after Jarba refused to appoint him as provisional prime minister, a post currently held by Ahmed Tumeh, a moderate Islamist.

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