JERUSALEM — Syria’s new leadership has taken steps to try to unite disparate rebel factions under a single government, the latest move to try to assert authority over the country in the wake of Bashar Assad’s ouster.

A number of rebel factions have agreed to dissolve themselves and be integrated under the Defense Ministry, according to SANA, the Syrian state-run news service.

Beyond dissolving rebel factions, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the offensive that overthrew the Assad dictatorship, has taken other actions recently aimed at building a new state. His administration has appointed a caretaker prime minister to lead a transitional government until March and has promised that a legal committee would draft a new constitution.

Disbanding the country’s armed factions was a logical step for a leadership trying to establish a single national military.

“They are trying to build a state,” said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group, which researches global crises.

— The New York Times