Ministry of Defense (Syria)

Ministry of Defense وزارة الدفاع
Umayyad Square
Current minister	Fahd Jassem al-Freij
Jurisdiction	Syrian Armed Forces
Headquarters	Damascus
Website	www.mod.gov.sy
Coordinations

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

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

• Abd al-Ghaffar al-Atrash (September 1941)
• Abd al-Rahman al-Kayyali (19 August 1943 –)
• Ahmad al-Sharabati (April 17 1946 – 25 May 1948)
• Abdullah Atfeh (1948)
• Jamil Mardam Bey (1948–)
• Abdullah Atfeh (1949)
• Akram El-Hourani (December 1949)
• Faydi al-Atasi (December 1949 – 1950)
• Fawzi Selu (1950–1951)
• Khalid al-Azm (1950–1951)
• Mar'uf al-Dawalibi (1951)
• Rashad Barmada (June November 1954)
• Abd al-Hasib Raslan (14 June – November 1956)
• Khalid al-Azm (November 1956)
• Abd al-Hasib Raslan (November 1956 – 1957)

Ba'athist Syria

8th of March Syrian Revolution (1963)

• Muhammad al-Sufi (9 March 1963 – 2 May 1963)
• Ziad al-Hariri (2 May 1963 – 8 July 1963)
• Mamdouh Jaber (8 July 1963 – 1965)
• Hamad Ubayd (1965–1966)
• Muhammad Umran (1 January – 23 February 1966)
• Hafez al-Assad (23 February 1966 – 1972)
• Mustafa Tlass (1972 – 12 May 2004)
• Hasan Turkmani (12 May 2004 – 3 June 2009)
• Ali Habib Mahmud (3 June 2009 – 8 August 2011)
• Dawoud Rajiha (8 August 2011 – 18 July 2012)
• Fahd Jassem al-Freij (18 July 2012 – Present)

External links

• Ministry of Defense