Ministry of Defense (Syria)

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The Ministry of Defense (Template:Langx) is a government ministry office of Syria, responsible for defense affairs.[1] Murhaf Abu Qasra, Minister of Defense holds the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Armed Forces.[2]

Following the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, caretaker prime minister Mohammed al-Bashir has said the defense ministry would be restructured using former rebel factions and officers who defected from the former Ba'athist armed forces.[3]

Incorporation of rebel groups

At the Syrian Revolution Victory Conference, which was held in late January 2025, the Syrian caretaker government announced the dissolution of all security agencies of the Ba'athist regime and all militias established by it. In addition, the following Syrian opposition groups are expected to be dissolved and merged into the ministry: Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, Jaysh al-Nasr, Ansar al-Tawhid, Sham Legion, Al-Firqah Al-Saliheyah (faction in Al-Salihiyya), Jaysh al-Ahrar, Suqour al-Sham Brigades, Jama'at Ansar al-Islam, Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria, Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, Levant Front and the Syrian National Army.[4]

The Ministry of Defense later reported that over 70 armed factionsScript error: No such module "Unsubst". across six regions in total agreed to participate in the new administration.[5]

However, one leader from the Syrian National Army indicated that the dissolution of different groups will be done "gradually", while a rebel leader from Daraa Governorate confirmed that the rebel groups had been ordered to disband, but that the "implementation" needs more time until more clarity is provided on how the ministry will ultimately be structured.[6]

As of February 2025, the ministry has formed a committee focused on restructuring and managing assets, as well as a "sub-committee" whose purpose is to determine a new "internal structure" for the armed forces.[7]

Defense ministers

Arab Kingdom of Syria (1918–1920)

No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 File:No image.png Template:Ill
(1875–1925)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		9 March 1920 3 May 1920 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
2 File:Yusuf al-'Azma 7.jpg Yusuf al-Azma
(1883–1920)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		3 May 1920 24 July 1920 † Template:Ayd Al-Fatat Template:Ill
3 File:Jamil al-Ulshi.jpg Jamil al-Ulshi
(1883–1951)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		25 July 1920 30 November 1920 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
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French Mandate for Syria (1920–1946)

No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 File:Portrait of Shukri al-Quwatli in 1943.jpeg Shukri al-Quwatli
(1891–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		21 December 1936 22 March 1938 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc Template:Ill
2 File:JamilMardamBeyPortrait.jpg Jamil Mardam Bey
(1895–1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		22 March 1938 23 February 1939 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc Template:Ill
3 File:Mazhar Raslan portrait.jpg Mazhar Raslan
(1886–1948)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		23 February 1939 5 April 1939 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc al-Haffar
4 File:Nasuhi al-Bukhari.jpeg Nasuhi al-Bukhari
(1881–1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 April 1939 4 July 1939 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
5 File:No image.png Template:Ill
(1879–1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		20 September 1941 15 March 1942 † Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
6 File:No image.png Template:Ill
(1905–1977)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		18 April 1942 25 March 1943 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
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7 File:Ata al-Ayyubi.jpg Ata Bey al-Ayyubi
(1874–1950)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		25 March 1943 19 August 1943 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
(4) File:Nasuhi al-Bukhari.jpeg Nasuhi al-Bukhari
(1881–1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		19 August 1943 14 October 1944 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
(2) File:JamilMardamBeyPortrait.jpg Jamil Mardam Bey
(1895–1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		14 October 1944 26 August 1945 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc Template:Ill–Template:Ill
8 File:Khalid al-Azm.jpg Khalid al-Azm
(1903–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		26 August 1945 30 September 1945 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
9 File:Saadallah al-Jabiri.jpg Saadallah al-Jabiri
(1892–1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		30 September 1945 27 April 1946 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc Template:Ill

First Syrian Republic and Second Syrian Republic (1946–1958)

No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 File:NabihAlAzmah.jpg Nabih al-Azma
(1886–1964)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		27 April 1946 17 June 1946 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Bloc Template:Ill
2 File:No image.png Ahmad al-Sharabati
(1905–1975)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		17 June 1946 23 May 1948 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
Template:Ill–Template:Ill
3 File:JamilMardamBeyPortrait.jpg Jamil Mardam Bey
(1895–1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		23 August 1948 12 December 1948 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Party Template:Ill–Template:Ill
4 File:Khalid al-Azm.jpg Khalid al-Azm
(1903–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		12 December 1948 17 April 1949 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
5 File:Husni al-Zaiim.jpg Husni al-Za'im
(1897–1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		17 April 1949 1 July 1949 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
6 File:Atfeh.jpg Abdullah Atfeh
(1897–1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1 July 1949 24 December 1949 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
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7 File:Fawzi Selu.jpg Fawzi Selu
(1905–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		24 December 1949 28 December 1949 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
8 File:Akram Hourani.jpg Akram al-Hawrani
(1911–1966)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		28 December 1949 4 June 1950 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Arab Party Movement Template:Ill
(7) File:Fawzi Selu.jpg Fawzi Selu
(1905–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		4 June 1950 13 November 1951 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill–Template:Ill
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9 File:Zaki Al-Khatib.jpg Zaki al-Khatib
(1887–1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 November 1951 28 November 1951 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | People's Party Template:Ill
10 File:No image.png Maarouf al-Dawalibi
(1909–2004)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		28 November 1951 29 November 1951 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | People's Party Template:Ill
(7) File:Fawzi Selu.jpg Fawzi Selu
(1905–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		2 December 1951 19 July 1953 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Military Template:Ill
11 File:No image.png Raf'at Khankan
(1903–1970)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		19 July 1953 1 March 1954 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Military Template:Ill
(10) File:No image.png Maarouf al-Dawalibi
(1909–2004)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		1 March 1954 19 June 1954 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | People's Party Template:Ill
12 File:Said al-Ghazzi.jpg Said al-Ghazzi
(1893–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		19 June 1954 3 November 1954 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
13 File:Rashad Barmada.jpg Rashad Barmada
(1893–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		3 November 1954 13 February 1955 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | People's Party Template:Ill
(4) File:Khalid al-Azm.jpg Khalid al-Azm
(1903–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 February 1955 13 September 1955 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
(13) File:Rashad Barmada.jpg Rashad Barmada
(1893–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 September 1955 14 June 1956 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | People's Party Template:Ill
14 File:No image.png Abd al-Hasib Raslan
(1901–1959)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		14 June 1956 31 December 1956 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill
(4) File:Khalid al-Azm.jpg Khalid al-Azm
(1903–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		31 December 1956 22 February 1958 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | Independent Template:Ill

United Arab Republic (1958–1961)

No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 File:Abdel Hakim Amer, 1955.jpg Abdel Hakim Amer
(1916–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		22 February 1958 28 September 1961 Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | National Union Template:Ill–Template:Ill–Template:Ill

Second Syrian Republic and Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic (1961–2024)

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No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government
Took office Left office Time in office

Transitional period (2024–present)

No. Portrait Name
(born–died)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Political party Government
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Major General
Murhaf Abu Qasra
(born 1984)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		21 December 2024 Incumbent Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Party color; " | HTS
(until 29 January 2025)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Caretaker
(until 29 March 2025)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Timeline of the ministers since 1958

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  from: 28/09/1961 till: 20/11/1961 color:Ind  text:"Maamun al-Kuzbari"
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  from: 20/11/1961 till: 22/12/1961 color:mil  text:"Izzat al-Nuss"
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  from: 22/12/1961 till: 16/04/1962 color:PP   text:"Rashad Barmada"
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  from: 16/04/1962 till: 08/03/1963 color:Ind  text:"Abdul Karim Zahreddine"
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  from: 09/03/1963 till: 11/05/1963 color:Ind  text:"Muhammad al-Sufi"
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  from: 11/05/1963 till: 04/08/1963 color:Ind  text:"Ziad al-Hariri"
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  from: 04/08/1963 till: 14/05/1964 color:Ind  text:"Abdullah Ziadeh"
 bar:Jaber
  from: 14/05/1964 till: 23/09/1965 color:ASBP text:"Mamdouh Jaber"
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  from: 23/09/1965 till: 27/12/1965 color:ASBP text:"Hamad Ubayd"
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  from: 01/01/1966 till: 23/02/1966 color:ASBP text:"Muhammad Umran"
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  from: 23/02/1966 till: 17/03/1971 color:ASBP text:"Hafez al-Assad"
 bar:Tlass
  from: 22/03/1972 till: 12/05/2004 color:ASBP text:"Mustafa Tlass"
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  from: 12/05/2004 till: 03/06/2009 color:ASBP text:"Hasan Turkmani"
 bar:Mahmud
  from: 03/06/2009 till: 08/08/2011 color:ASBP text:"Ali Habib Mahmud"
 bar:Rajiha
  from: 08/08/2011 till: 18/06/2012 color:ASBP text:"Dawoud Rajiha"
 bar:al-Freij
  from: 18/06/2012 till: 01/01/2018 color:ASBP text:"Fahd Jassem al-Freij"
 bar:Ayyoub
  from: 01/01/2018 till: 28/04/2022 color:ASBP text:"Ali Abdullah Ayyoub"
 bar:Abbas
  from: 28/04/2022 till: 08/12/2024 color:ASBP text:"Ali Mahmoud Abbas"
 bar:Qasra
  from: 21/12/2024 till: 29/01/2025 color:HTS
  from: 29/01/2025 till: $today     color:Ind  text:"Murhaf Abu Qasra"

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Military intelligence agencies

Ba'athist Syria

Current

See also

References

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