Ali_Abdullah_Ayyoub

Ali Abdullah Ayyoub

Ali Abdullah Ayyoub

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and military commander

Lieutenant General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (Arabic: علي عبد الله أيوب, romanized: ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Ayyūb) (born 28 April 1952 in Latakia)[1] is a Syrian senior miltary officer who serves as the current Deputy Prime Minister of Syria. He was the former Minister of Defense and was personally appointed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 1 January 2018.[2]

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Ayyoub has a long experience in commanding manoeuvre formations and is also recognized as a specialist in land warfare.

Education

Military Education[3]

  • Bachelor in Military Sciences, Armoured Branch, Military Academy, Homs (1971–1973)
  • Appointed with the rank of Lieutenant under probation (1973)
  • Company Commander Course
  • Battalion Commander Course
  • Command and Staff Course
  • Higher Staff Course (War Course)

Functions and main responsibilities

  • Former commander of different Armoured Brigades of Syrian Land Forces and Syrian Republican Guard
  • Former commander of the 4th Armoured Division
  • Former commander of the First Army Corps (regrouping the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 7th Divisions), Damascus
  • Former Chief of Staff of the Arab Syrian Arab Army between 12 July 2012 and 31 December 2017

War crime charges

In October 2023, French prosecutors at the Judicial Court of Paris charged Ali Ayyoub and his predecessor Fahd Al-Freij for their culpability in a barrel bomb in southwestern Syrian city of Daraa that killed French-Syrian national Salah Abou Nabout at his home in 2017.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "العماد علي عبد الله أيوب". mod.gov.sy (in Arabic). 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Syria's Assad names new defense and other ministers: state TV". Reuters. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  3. [3]
    "العماد علي عبد الله أيوب". mod.gov.sy (in Arabic). 12 January 2020. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. [4]
    Foroudi, Layli; Gebeily, Maya; Berg, Stephanie van den (20 October 2023). "French prosecutors seek arrest of two Syrian ex-ministers over 2017 bomb". Reuters. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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