Al-Jama'a

The al-Jama'a (Arabic: الجماعة), also sometimes referred as Jam'a, was an unofficial and small political group of people closest to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. The Jama'a was the main, the most influential political and military elite in all of Ba'athist Syria and had the greatest influence on President Assad's final decisions. The exact and complete personnel of Jama'a is unknown, but many high-ranking politicians were members of it. Jama'a is translates from Arabic as "company," "group," or sometimes "gang."

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