Members of a Syrian opposition body formed in Saudi Arabia last week was chosen former prime minister Riad Hijab to represent them in the conflict's troubled peace process, Reuters reports.
Hijab, who defected from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government in 2012, got the backing of more than two thirds of the 34 delegates from movements called to Riyadh by world powers in a bid to unite them and settle years of wrangling and rivalries.
The members of the body are representatives of political opposition groups inside and outside Syria. It also includes representatives of fighting groups inside the country such as the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham and a number of Free Syrian Army units that have received military support from states opposed to Assad such as Saudi Arabia and the United States.