Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has changed seven ministers in his cabinet, the official SANA news agency reported on Saturday

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has changed seven ministers in his cabinet, the official SANA news agency reported on Saturday.

None of the key portfolios was affected.
The agency said Assad had decided to split the ministry of labour and social affairs into two, and brought in a woman, Kinda Shmat, to head the latter. Hassan Hijazi becomes labour minister.
  
Sleiman Abbas takes the oil and mineral resources portfolio, and Ismail Ismail becomes finance minister. Hussein Farzat gets housing and urban development, Ahmad al-Qadri goes to agriculture and public works goes to Hussein Arnus.