MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maher al-Assad

1967 - Today

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Major General Maher Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: مَاهِرُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Māhir al-ʾAsad, born 8 December 1967) is a Syrian former military officer who served as commander of the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armoured Division, which, together with Syria's Military Intelligence, formed the core of the Ba'athist regime's security forces until its collapse in 2024. He is the younger brother of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and also was a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Ba'ath Party. At the onset of the Syrian Revolution, Maher was thought by some to be the second-most powerful man in Syria after his brother Bashar, the president. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maher al-Assad has received more than 1,212,975 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Maher al-Assad is the 1,357th most popular military personnel (down from 1,338th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Syria (up from 127th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maher al-Assad ranks 1,357 out of 2,058. Before him are Maximilian Fretter-Pico, Athanasios Diakos, Angelo Iachino, Moritz von Auffenberg, Arabo, and Mikhail Diterikhs. After him are Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, Otto Ruge, José Enrique Varela, Leopold Okulicki, Constantine Angelos, and Gregor MacGregor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Maher al-Assad ranks 96. Before him are Michel Hazanavicius, Leslie Jones, Thomas Muster, Sable, Mamoru Hosoda, and Aleksandar Đorđević. After him are Benny Benassi, Miranda Otto, Kate Walsh, Eddie Guerrero, Etgar Keret, and Chuck Schuldiner.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Maher al-Assad ranks 121 out of 210. Before him are Mithridates I Callinicus (-200), Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan (1934), Michael Ansara (1922), Assef Shawkat (1950), Antiochus Hierax (-266), and Ignatius Moses I Daoud (1930). After him are Aram Tigran (1934), Philipp Stamma (1705), Elia Abu Madi (1890), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), and Jean Carzou (1907).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Syria

Among military personnels born in Syria, Maher al-Assad ranks 1. After him are Riad al-Asaad (1961), Issam Zahreddine (1961), Suheil al-Hassan (1970), Rojda Felat (1980), and Asia Ramazan Antar (1997).

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