Abdullah al-Ahmar

{{Short description|Syrian politician}} {{About|the Syrian politician|the Yemeni politician and tribal leader|Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder | name = Abdullah al-Ahmar<br />{{Nobold|{{lang|ar|عبدالله الأحمر}}}} | image = Abdullah al-Ahmar Cropped.png | image_size = | caption = Ahmar during an official visit to [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] in 1978 | office = Assistant Secretary General of the [[National Command of the Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)|National Command]] of the [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-led faction)|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] | term_start = 17 November 1971 | term_end = 26 October 2018 | predecessor = [[Hafez al-Assad]] | successor = [[Hilal Hilal]] | 1blankname = President | 1namedata = [[Hafez al-Assad]]<br />[[Bashar al-Assad]] | office1 = Member of the [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]] of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] | term_start1 = 13 November 1970 | term_end1 = 9 February 2005 | birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1936|6|6|df=y}}}} | birth_place = [[Al-Tall, Syria|Al-Tall]], [[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate]] | death_date = | death_place = | school_tradition = | main_interests = | party = [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] (1954–1966)<br />[[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-led faction)|Syria-based Ba'ath Party]] ([[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian branch]]: (1966–2024) | other_party = [[National Progressive Front (Syria)|National Progressive Front]]: (1972–2024) | alma_mater = [[University of Damascus]] }} '''Abdullah Al-Ahmar''' ({{langx|ar|عبدالله الأحمر}}; born 6 June 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 September 2015 |title=Comrade Abdullah Alahmar Assistant Secretary General of the Baath Arab Socialist Party |url=http://www.baath-party.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=315&Itemid=333&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129175547/http://www.baath-party.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=315&Itemid=333&lang=en |archive-date=29 January 2021}}</ref> is a [[Syria]]n [[politician]] and prominent member of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]].

==Biography== Born at [[Al-Tall, Syria|Al-Tall]], al-Ahmar joined the Ba'ath Party in the 1950s and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the [[Damascus University|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|Hafez Al-Assad]] after [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|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, al-Ahmar was re-elected with Assad into the same positions they held since 1971. Since the death of Assad in 2000, Ahmar became 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, al-Ahmar was the head of a Ba'ath Party delegation visiting [[North Korea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/07/25/494220.htm|title=Democratic Korean President stresses absolute solidarity with Syria |access-date=July 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726015952/http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/07/25/494220.htm |archive-date=July 26, 2013 }}</ref>

At the 14th Conference of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 2017, Bashar al-Assad was elected the Secretary General of the National Council, replacing al-Ahmar.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://sana.sy/?p=554774|title=انعقاد المؤتمر القومي الرابع عشر لحزب البعث.. الهلال: قرارات المؤتمر تساعد في الانتقال إلى عمل قومي مميز- فيديو|publisher=[[Syrian Arab News Agency]]|access-date=12 November 2023|date=14 May 2017}}</ref> A year later, he stepped down from his position as Assistant Secretary General, handing it over to [[Hilal Hilal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.breakingnews.sy/ar/article/20892.html|title=هلال هلال أمينا قطريا مساعدا لحزب البعث.. وإحداث مكتب جديد للشباب في القيادة القطرية|author=شبكة عاجل الإخبارية|language=ar|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322051809/http://breakingnews.sy/ar/article/20892.html|archive-date=22 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100613035219/http://baath-party.org/leadership_detail.asp?id=3 Abdullah Al-Ahmar](in Arabic). *{{YouTube|gEalBXp0Gi8|TV Interview}} (in Arabic) *[https://archive.today/20130116102814/http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/322480/ Second Baath party figure arrested in Syria], archive.today. Retrieved 3 March 2024.

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