Wafiq Nasser
Former head of the Military Intelligence Directorate in Aleppo
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Wafiq Nasser is a Syrian former intelligence officer who served as the regional head of the Military Intelligence Directorate in various governorates from 2011 until 2023.
Wafiq Nasser | |
|---|---|
| Chief of Military Intelligence in Suwayda | |
| In office October 2011[1] – 2018[2] | |
| Preceded by | Suhail Ramadan[2] |
| Chief of Military Intelligence in Hama | |
| Assumed office 2018[2] | |
| Chief of Military Intelligence in Aleppo | |
| In office 2022–2023 | |
| Head of the Security Committee | |
| In office July 2012 – November 2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Kifah Moulhem |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Ba'athist Syria |
| Battles/wars | |
Career
He served as a colonel in the Republican Guard in the early years of the Syrian Civil War and took part in raids on Daraa.[3]
Nasser was the Chief of Military Intelligence in Suwayda from October 2011[1] until 2018.[2]
He was appointed the head of the Security Committee in southern Syria, which he headed from 2012 until 2017.[2]
Nasser and the Military Intelligence Directorate were given control of Aleppo in April 2022, following the failure of the General Intelligence Directorate to retain control.[4]
He was forced into retirement in January 2023.[5]
Sanctions
The United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned him in July 2021.[6]