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Place of Birth: Al-Tall, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
About Abdullah al-Ahmar
- Abdullah Al-Ahmar (Arabic: ??????? ???????) (born 6 June 1936) is a Syrian politician and prominent member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
- He is the Assistant Secretary-General of the Ba'ath Party's National Command. Born at Al-Tall, Ahmar joined the Ba'ath Party in the 1950s and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus in 1964.
- Soon after, he was appointed as a governor of Hama (1967-1969) then Idlib (1969-1970).
- In 1970, the regional Ba'ath conference elected him to the Syrian Regional Command together with Hafez Al-Assad after an internal coup in the party that expelled Salah Jadid's faction from power.
- A few months later, Assad's faction held a meeting and appointed a new National Command that elected Assad as a general secretary and Ahmar his deputy.
- This National Command is competing with another one that was based in Iraq on being the sole legitimate National Command. In 1980, Ahmar was re-elected with Assad into the same positions they held since 1971.
- Since the death of Assad in 2000, Ahmar is the highest ranked Ba'ath member in Syria, while Bashar Al-Assad is the general-secretary of the Syrian Regional Command. On 25 July 2013, Abdullah al-Ahmar was the head of a Ba'ath Party delegation visiting North Korea.
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