The government includes ministers who were educated in the West, one woman, and members of the Druze, Kurdish, Christian, and Alawite minority groups.

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on a pledge to create a government representative of all Syrians.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, a key milestone in the transition away from decades of Assad family rule and improving Syria's ties with the West. (Reporting by Enas Alashray and Ahmed Tolba;