Second Hussein Arnous government

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|cabinet_name = Second Hussein Arnous government

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|jurisdiction = the Syrian Arab Republic

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|caption = Hussein Arnous

|date_formed = 10 August 2021

|date_dissolved = 23 September 2024 (from 29 July Caretaker gov.)

|government_head = Hussein Arnous
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali (As caretaker)

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|deputy_government_head = Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (until 2022)

|state_head = Bashar al-Assad

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|total_number = 30

|political_party = Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Socialist Unionist Party
Syrian Communist Party (Unified)

|legislature_status = 183-seat National Progressive Front majority

|election = 2020 Syrian parliamentary election

|last_election =

|legislature_term = 4 years

|budget = LS 35,500 billion{{Efn|US$5 billion}}{{Cite web|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=214781|date=2020-12-22|title=President al-Assad issues law that allocates approbations of general budget of 2021 with 8500 billion SYP|access-date=2021-10-19|website=SANA|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/12/15/Syria-approves-5-bln-budget-for-2022-as-crisis-bites|title = Syria approves $5 BLN budget for 2022 as crisis bites|date = 15 December 2021}}{{cite web | url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=321831 | title=People's Assembly approves State's General Budget of 2024 with 35500 billion SYP | date=12 December 2023 }}

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|previous = First Hussein Arnous government

|successor = Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali government

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The second government of Hussein Arnous was formed after appointment by the President of Syria on 10 August 2021 and took the oath of office on 14 August 2021, after the presidential election held in May.{{Cite news|date=2021-08-01|title=Syria's Assad asks PM Arnous to form new cabinet|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrias-assad-asks-pm-hussein-arnous-form-new-cabinet-2021-08-01/|access-date=2021-10-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://sana.sy/en/?p=245221|date=2021-08-14|title=Members of the new Cabinet, chaired by Eng. Hussein Arnous, sworn in before President Bashar al-Assad|access-date=2021-10-19|website=SANA|language=en-US}} This replaced the caretaker ministry formed in July.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-01|title=Syria's Assad asks PM Hussein Arnous to form new cabinet|url=https://arab.news/nnw4t|access-date=2021-10-05|website=Arab News|language=en}} The government was the 95th since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and it was the eighth during the presidency of Bashar al-Assad.

Ministers

Hussein Arnous, Prime Minister of Syria
Ali Mahmoud Abbas, Minister of Defense
Faisal Mekdad, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister
Mohammad Khaled al-Rahmoun, Interior Minister
Ahmad al-Sayyed, Justice Minister
Kenan Yaghi, Finance Minister
Mohammad Samer al-Khalil, Economy and Foreign Trade Minister
Mohsen Abdul Karim Ali, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister
Abdel Qader Jokhadar, Industry Minister
Zouhair Khazim, Transport Minister
Hussein Makhlouf, Water Resources Minister
Firas Hassan Kaddour, Minister of Oil and Mineral Reserves
Ghassan al-Zamel, Electricity Minister
Iyad Mohammad al-Khatib, Communications and Technology Minister
Louai Emad El-Din al-Munajjid, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor
Suhail Mohammad Abdullatif, Public Works and Housing Minister
Mohammed Hassan Qatana, Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Minister
{{ill|Lamia Chakkour|ar|لمياء شكور}}, Local Administration and Environment Minister
Boutros Al-Hallaq, Information Minister
Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, Awqaf (Religious Endowments) Minister
Hassan al-Ghabbash, Health Minister
Muhammad Amer Mardini, Education Minister
Bassam Bashir Ibrahim, Higher Education Minister
Lubanah Mshaweh, Minister of Culture
Mohammad Rami Radwan Martini, Tourism Minister
Salam Mohammad al-Saffaf, Administrative Development Minister
Ahmed Bustaji, Minister of State for Investment Affairs and Vital Projects
Abdullah Sallum Abdullah, Minister of State for People's Assembly Affairs{{cite news|author=Prime Minister's Office |url=https://sana.sy/en/?page_id=1900 |title=Prime Minister's Office – Syrian Arab News Agency |newspaper = Syrian Arab News Agency|publisher=Sana.sy |date= |accessdate=2021-10-21}}
Diala Barakat, Minister of State for Southern Development Affairs{{cite news|author=Prime Minister's Office |url=https://sana.sy/en/?page_id=1900 |title=Prime Minister's Office – Syrian Arab News Agency |newspaper = Syrian Arab News Agency|publisher=Sana.sy |date= |accessdate=2021-10-21}}

Ministerial changes

On 28 April 2022, Presidential Decree No. 115 was issued naming Major General Ali Mahmoud Abbas as Minister of Defense replacing Ali Abdullah Ayyoub.{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.sy/arabic/index.php?node=201&nid=22974&ref=tree&

| title = الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسوماً بتسمية اللواء علي محمود عباس وزيراً للدفاع

| website = مجلس الشعب السوري

| accessdate = 2022-08-14

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220121095222/http://parliament.gov.sy/arabic/index.php?node=201 |archive-date =21 January 2022 }} General Ayyoub also ended his term in office as Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.

= 2023 reshuffle =

;1st reshuffle

On 29 March 2023, Presidential Decree No. 91 was issued, naming Dr. Firas Hassan Kaddour as Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Mr. Mohsen Abdel Karim Ali as Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, Dr. Abdel Qader Jokhadar as Minister of Industry, Mr. Louai Emad El-Din al-Munajjid as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, and Mr. Ahmad Bustaji as Minister of State.{{Cite news|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=304772|title=President al-Assad issues decree on Cabinet reshuffle including five ministers|publisher=Syrian Arab News Agency|date=29 March 2023}} The decree ends the designation of Eng. Mohammad Fayez al-Barasha as Minister of State. On 8 August 2023, Presidential Decree No. 206 was issued, naming Dr. Muhammad Amer Mardini as Minister of Education.{{Cite news|url=http://newspaper.albaathmedia.sy/2023/08/08/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%af-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b3%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8b-%d8%a8%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%83/|title=الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسوماً بتسمية الدكتور محمد عامر مارديني وزيراً للتربية|publisher=Al Baath Newspaper|access-date=8 August 2023|date=8 August 2023}}

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!Office

!Dismissed

!Appointed

Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister

|Amr Salem

|Mohsen Abdel Karim Ali

Industry Minister

|Ziyad Sabbagh

|Abdel Qader Jokhadar

Minister of Oil and Mineral Reserves

|Bassam Tohme

|Firas Hassan Kaddour

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor

|Mohamed Seif El-Din

|Louai Emad El-Din al-Munajjid

Education Minister

|Darem Tabbaa

|Muhammad Amer Mardini

Minister of State for Investment Affairs and Vital Projects

|Mohammad Fayez al-Barasha

|Ahmed Bustaji

;2nd reshuffle

On 13 December 2023, Presidential Decree No. 313 for appointing Eng. Hussein Makhlouf as Minister of Water Resources in addition to appointing Eng. Lamia Youssef Shakour a Minister of Local Administration and Environment was issued.{{Cite web|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=321881|title=President al-Assad issues a decree appointing two ministers|access-date=14 December 2023|date=13 December 2023|publisher=SANA}} The Ministry of Presidential Affairs was abolished on 13 December 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=321876|title=President al-Assad issues a decree on establishing General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic|access-date=14 December 2023|date=13 December 2023|publisher=SANA}}

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!Office

!Dismissed

!Appointed

Local Administration and Environment Minister

|Hussein Makhlouf

|Lamia Youssef Shakour

Water Resources Minister

|Tammam Raad

|Hussein Makhlouf

Presidential Affairs Minister

|Mansour Fadlallah Azzam