Ministry of Defense (Syria)

Ministry of Defense

وزارة الدفاع
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Syrian Armed Forces
Headquarters	Umayyad Square, Damascus 33°30′50.58″N 36°16′42.58″E
Minister responsible	Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, Minister of Defense
Website	www.mod.gov.sy

The Ministry of Defense (Arabic: وزارة الدفاع) is a government ministry office of the Syrian Arab Republic, responsible for defense affairs in Syria.

Ministers of Defense

State of Syria

• Jamil al-Ulshi (1920s)
• Yusuf al-'Azma (1920s)

Mandatory Syria

• Abd al-Ghaffar al-Atrash (September 1941)
• Nasuhi al-Bukhari (19 August 1943 –?)

Syrian Republic

• Jamil Mardam Bey (5 April 1945 – 26 August 1945) and (23 August 1948 – 12 December 1948)
• Khalid al-Azm (26 August 1945 – 30 September 1945), (12 December 1948 – 17 April 1949) and (13 February 1955 – 13 September 1955)
• Saadallah al-Jabiri (23 October 1945 – 27 April 1946)
• Nabih al-'Azma (27 April 1946 – 17 June 1946)
• Ahmad al-Sharabati (28 October 1946 – 23 May 1948)
• Husni al-Za'im (17 April 1949 – 1 July 1949)
• Abdullah Atfeh (1 July 1949 – 28 December 1949)
• Akram El-Hourani (28 December 1949 – 4 June 1950)
• Fawzi Selu (4 June 1950 – 13 November 1951) and (9 June 1952 – 19 July 1953)
• Zaki al-Khatib (13 November 1951 – 9 June 1952)
• Raf'at Khankan (19 July 1953 – 1 March 1954)
• Maarouf al-Dawalibi (1 March 1954 – 19 June 1954)
• Said al-Ghazzi (19 June 1954 – 3 November 1954)
• Rashad Barmada (3 November 1954 – 13 February 1955) and (13 September 1955 – 14 June 1956)
• Abd al-Hasib Raslan (14 June 1956 – 22 February 1958)
• Abdel Hakim Amer (22 February 1958 – 28 September 1961)
• Maamun al-Kuzbari (28 September 1961 – 20 November 1961)
• Izzat al-Nuss (20 November 1961 – 22 December 1961)
• Abdul Karim Zahreddine (16 April 1962 – 8 March 1963)

Syrian Arab Republic

No.	Portrait	Name (Born-Died)	Term of office			Political Party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		General Muhammad al-Sufi (born 1927)	9 March 1963	11 May 1963	63 days	Independent
2		Major General Ziad al-Hariri (born 1930)	11 May 1963	4 August 1963	85 days	Independent
3		Major General Abdullah Ziade	4 August 1963	14 May 1964	284 days	Independent
4		Major General Mamdouh Jaber (born 1928)	14 May 1964	23 September 1965	1 year, 132 days	Ba'ath Party
5		Major General Hamad Ubayd (born 1928)	23 September 1965	27 December 1965	95 days	Ba'ath Party
6		Major General Muhammad Umran (1922–1972)	1 January 1966	23 February 1966	53 days	Ba'ath Party
7		Major General Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000)	23 February 1966	17 March 1971	5 years, 22 days	Ba'ath Party
8		General Mustafa Tlass (1932–2017)	22 March 1972	12 May 2004	32 years, 51 days	Ba'ath Party
9		Lieutenant General Hasan Turkmani (1935–2012)	12 May 2004	3 June 2009	5 years, 22 days	Ba'ath Party
10		General Ali Habib Mahmud (born 1939)	3 June 2009	8 August 2011	2 years, 66 days	Ba'ath Party
11		General Dawoud Rajiha (1947–2012)	8 August 2011	18 July 2012 †	345 days	Ba'ath Party
12		General Fahd Jassem al-Freij (born 1950)	18 July 2012	1 January 2018	5 years, 167 days	Ba'ath Party
13		General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (born 1952)	1 January 2018	Incumbent	6 years, 148 days	Ba'ath Party

External links

• Ministry of Defense