Ziad al-Hariri
Ziad al-Hariri | |
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زياد الحريري | |
| Chief of General Staff of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces | |
| In office 8 March 1963 – 8 July 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Khalid al-Azm Salah al-Din Bitar |
| Preceded by | Abd al-Karim Zahr al-Din |
| Succeeded by | Salah Jadid |
| 6th Minister of Defense | |
| In office 2 May 1963 – 8 July 1963 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad al-Sufi |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Umran |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1929 |
| Died | 2 September 2015 (aged 85–86) Damascus, Syria |
| Party | Independent |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | First Syrian Republic (1948–1950) Second Syrian Republic (1950–1958) United Arab Republic (1958–1961) Second Syrian Republic (1961–1963) Ba'athist Syria (1963) |
| Branch/service | Syrian Arab Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1948–1963 |
| Rank | Major general |
| Commands | General Staff of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces |
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Mohammed Ziad al-Hariri (1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Syrian Arab Army officer. A staunch Arab nationalist, he supported the union between Syria and Egypt in 1958, opposed Syria's secession from it in 1961 and served as the chief leader of the coup d'état that toppled the secessionist government in March 1963. Politically independent from the Nasserists and their Ba'athist rivals, Hariri served as the army's chief of staff following the coup and was briefly defense minister until being dismissed during a wide-scale purge of non-Ba'athists from the military. He retired from political activity soon afterward.