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Ziad al-Hariri | |
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| Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army | |
| In office 8 March 1963 – 8 July 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | 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 | 1930 Hama, State of Damascus, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon |
| Died | 2 September 2015 (aged 84–85) Damascus, Syria |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Syria |
| Branch/service | Syrian Army |
| Years of service | 1948–1963 |
| Rank |  Major general |
| Commands | General Staff of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces |
Mohammed Ziad al-Hariri (1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Syrian 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.[1][2][3][4][5] 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.
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