List of Prime Ministers of Syria

This is a list of Prime Ministers of Syria since 1920.

Keys

Meaning
—	Acting prime minister.
	National Bloc
	Syrian Social Nationalist Party
	Military
	Arab Liberation Movement
	National Union
	People's Party
	Syrian Regional Branch (Ba'ath Party)
	Syrian Regional Branch (Syrian Ba'ath Party)

Prime Ministers

№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
1		Rida Pasha al-Rikabi (1864–1943)	March 1920	May 1920	Independent		—
—		Hashim al-Atassi (1875–1960)	May 1920	28 July 1920	Independent		—
2	—	Alaa al-Din al-Durubi (?–1920)	28 July 1920	21 August 1920	Independent		—
3		Jamil al-Ulshi (1883–1951)	6 September 1920	30 November 1920	Independent		—
№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
4		Subhi Barakat (1883–1939)	26 January 1925	21 December 1925	Independent		—
—		Taj al-Din al-Hasani (1885–1943)	29 December 1925	6 January 1926	Independent		—
5	—	Ahmad Nami (1878–1962)	27 April 1926	9 February 1928	Independent		—
6		Taj al-Din al-Hasani (1885–1943)	15 April 1928	14 May 1930	Independent		—
№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
6		Taj al-Din al-Hasani (1885–1943)	14 May 1930	19 November 1931	Independent		—
7		Haqqi al-Azm (1864–1955)	7 June 1932	16 March 1934	Independent		—
8		Taj al-Din al-Hasani (1885–1943)	16 March 1934	22 February 1936	Independent		—
9		Ata al-Ayyubi (1877–1951)	22 February 1936	21 December 1936	Independent		—
10		Jamil Mardam Bey (1894–1960)	21 December 1936	18 February 1939	National Bloc		—
11	—	Lutfi al-Haffar (1885–1968)	23 February 1939	13 March 1939	National Bloc		—
12	—	Nasuhi al-Bukhari (1881–1961)	6 April 1939	9 July 1939	Independent		—
13		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	4 April 1941	21 September 1941	Independent		—
14	—	Hassan al-Hakim (1886–1988)	21 September 1941	19 April 1942	Independent		—
15	—	Husni al-Barazi (1895–1975)	19 April 1942	10 January 1943	Independent		—
16		Jamil al-Ulshi (1883–1951)	10 January 1943	25 March 1943	Independent		—
17		Ata al-Ayyubi (1877–1951)	25 March 1943	17 August 1943	Independent		—
18		Saadallah al-Jabiri (1891–1948)	19 August 1943	14 October 1944	National Bloc		—
19		Faris al-Khoury (1877–1962)	14 October 1944	1 October 1945	National Bloc		—
20		Saadallah al-Jabiri (1891–1948)	1 October 1945	24 October 1945	National Bloc		—
№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
20		Saadallah al-Jabiri (1891–1948)	24 October 1945	16 December 1946	National Bloc		—
—		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	16 December 1946	29 December 1946	Independent		—
21		Jamil Mardam Bey (1894–1960)	17 December 1946	29 December 1948	National Bloc		—
22		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	17 December 1948	30 March 1949	Independent		—
23		Husni al-Za'im (1897–1949)	17 April 1949	26 June 1949	Syrian Social Nationalist Party		—
24		Muhsin al-Barazi (1904–1949)	26 June 1949	14 August 1949	Independent		—
25		Hashim al-Atassi (1875–1960)	17 August 1949	24 December 1949	National Party		—
26		Nazim al-Kudsi (1906–1998)	24 December 1949	27 December 1949	People's Party		—
27		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	27 December 1949	4 June 1950	Independent		—
28		Nazim al-Kudsi (1906–1998)	4 June 1950	27 March 1951	People's Party		—
29		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	27 March 1951	9 August 1951	Independent		—
30	—	Hassan al-Hakim (1886–1988)	9 August 1951	13 November 1951	Independent		—
—	—	Zaki al-Khatib (1887–1961)	13 November 1951	28 November 1951	People's Party		—
31	—	Maarouf al-Dawalibi (1909–2004)	28 November 1951	29 November 1951	People's Party		—
32		Fawzi Selu (1905–1972)	3 December 1951	19 July 1953	Military		Selu had no power, real power laid in the hands of Adib Shishakli.[1]
33		Adib Shishakli (1909–1964)	19 July 1953	25 February 1954	Arab Liberation Movement		Shishakli resigned from office because of threats of a coup in 1954.[2] He fled the country, claiming that he did not want the country to fall into a civil war.[2]
34		Sabri al-Asali (1903–1976)	1 March 1954	19 June 1954	National Party		—
35		Said al-Ghazzi (1893–1967)	19 June 1954	3 November 1954	Independent		—
36		Faris al-Khoury (1877–1962)	3 November 1954	13 February 1955	People's Party		—
37		Sabri al-Asali (1903–1976)	13 February 1955	13 September 1955	National Party		—
38		Said al-Ghazzi (1893–1967)	13 September 1955	14 June 1956	Independent		—
39		Sabri al-Asali (1903–1976)	14 June 1956	22 February 1958	National Party		—
№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
40		Nur al-Din Kahala (1910–?)	7 October 1958	20 September 1960	National Union		—
41		Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj (1925–2013)	20 September 1960	16 August 1961	National Union		—
№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party		Note(s)
42		Maamun al-Kuzbari (1914–1998)	29 September 1961	20 November 1961	Independent		—
43	—	Izzat al-Nuss (1900–1972)	20 November 1961	14 December 1961	Military		—
44	—	Maarouf al-Dawalibi (1909–2004)	22 December 1961	28 March 1962	People's Party		—
45		Bashir al-Azma (1910–1992)	16 April 1962	14 September 1962	Independent		—
46		Khalid al-Azm (1903–1965)	17 September 1962	9 March 1963	Independent		The 1963 Syrian coup d'état, an event known as the 8th of March Revolution, toppled Khalid al-Azm and brought the National Council for the Revolutionary Command (NCRC) to government, although real power lay with the Ba'athist Military Committee, which organized the coup.[3]
47		Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980)	9 March 1963	11 November 1963	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
48		Amin al-Hafiz (1921–2009)	12 November 1963	13 May 1964	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
49		Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980)	14 May 1964	3 October 1964	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
50		Amin al-Hafiz (1921–2009)	4 October 1964	22 September 1965	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
51		Yusuf Zuayyin (1931–2016)	22 September 1965	21 December 1965	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
52		Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980)	1 January 1966	23 February 1966	Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		Salah al-Din al-Bitar was overthrown by the Military Committee because of his support for Michel Aflaq and the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.[4]
53		Yusuf Zuayyin (1931–2016)	1 March 1966	29 October 1968	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
54		Nureddin al-Atassi (1929–1992)	29 October 1968	18 November 1970	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		Nureddin al-Atassi was overthrown when a falling out occurred between Salah Jadid, the real ruler of Syria from 1966 to 1970, and Hafez al-Assad, the Minister of Defense.[5] Assad initiated a coup in 1970.[6]
55		Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000)	21 November 1970	3 April 1971	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
56	—	Abdul Rahman Khleifawi (1930–2009)	3 April 1971	21 December 1972	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
57	—	Mahmoud al-Ayyubi (1932–)	21 December 1972	7 August 1976	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
58	—	Abdul Rahman Khleifawi (1930–2009)	7 August 1976	27 March 1978	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
59	—	Muhammad Ali al-Halabi (1937–)	27 March 1978	9 January 1980	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
60	—	Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (1932–)	9 January 1980	1 November 1987	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
61	—	Mahmoud Zuabi (1935–2000)	1 November 1987	13 March 2000	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
62	—	Muhammad Mustafa Mero (1941–)	13 March 2000	10 September 2003	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
63		Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944–)	10 September 2003	14 April 2011	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
64	—	Adel Safar (1953–)	14 April 2011	23 June 2012	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
65	—	Riyad Farid Hijab (1966–)	23 June 2012	6 August 2012	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
—	—	Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji (1954–)	6 August 2012	11 August 2012	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—
66		Wael Nader al-Halqi (1964–)	11 August 2012	Incumbent	Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region)		—

See also

• List of Presidents of Syria
• Vice President of Syria
• Speaker of the People's Council of Syria

References

General

1. Moubayed 2006, p. 85.
2. Moubayed 2006, p. 339.
3. Moubayed 2006, p. 133.
4. Seale 1990, pp. 99–101.
5. Seale 1990, pp. 142–144.
6. Seale 1990, pp. 162–163.

Bibliography

• Moubayed, Sami M. (2006). Steel & Silk: Men and Women who shaped Syria 1900–2000. Cune Press. ISBN 1-885942-40-0.
• Seale, Patrick (1990). Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520069763.