Akram Ali Muhammad
{{Short description|Syrian security officer and politician}}
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| name = Akram Ali Muhammad
| native_name = {{nobold|أكرم علي محمد}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}}
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| birth_place = Hadidah, Homs Governorate, Syria
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| office = Governor of As-Suwayda Governorate
| president = Bashar al-Assad
| primeminister = Hussein Arnous
| termstart = 12 May 2024
| termend = 8 December 2024
| predecessor = Bassam Mamdouh Parsik
| successor = Mustafa al-Bakour
| office1 = Deputy Director of General Intelligence Directorate
| termstart1 = 7 July 2019
| termend1 = 2021
| president1 = Bashar al-Assad
| primeminister1 = Imad Khamis
Hussein Arnous
| predecessor1 = Zouheir Hamad
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| alma_mater = Institute of Security Sciences
| allegiance = {{flag|Ba'athist Syria}}
| branch = Syrian Arab Army
| serviceyears = 1985–2021
| rank = 30px Major General
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| unit = Special Tasks Regiment
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| battles = Syrian civil war
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| party = Ba'ath Party
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| children = 3
| residence = Damascus
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| profession = Military officer, Politician
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Akram Ali Muhammad ({{langx|ar|أكرم علي محمد}}; born 1962) is a former Syrian security officer and Governor of As-Suwayda Governorate from 12 May 2024 until the fall of the Assad regime.{{Cite web|url=https://sana.sy/?p=2085071|title=الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسومين بتعيين أربعة محافظين جدد|trans-title=President Assad issues two decrees appointing four new governors|date=12 May 2024|access-date=13 May 2024|publisher=Syrian Arab News Agency}} Until 2021, he was the Deputy Director of Syrian General Intelligence Directorate and a close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad.{{Cite news|url=http://tishreen.news.sy/?p=897586|title=الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسومين بتعيين محافظين جدد لمحافظات دير الزور وريف دمشق وحماة والسويداء12-2024|date=12 May 2024|access-date=13 May 2024|publisher=Tishreen}}{{Cite news|url=https://thawra.sy/?p=555736|title=الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسومين بتعيين أربعة محافظين جدد|date=12 May 2024|access-date=13 May 2024|publisher=Al-Thawra}}
Career
Akram Ali Muhammad was born in the town of Hadidah, Homs Governorate in 1962. He obtained a law degree in 1985. He followed a senior leadership course and several courses in management at the Institute of Security Sciences between 1986 and 1990.
Since the 1990s, he served in several military positions. In 2009, he served as head of the State Security Branch in Aleppo with the rank of brigadier general, and remained in his position until the beginning of 2013.[https://alwatan.sy/archives/388953الرئيس الأسد يصدر مرسومين بتعيين أربعة محافظين جدد] Later, he was appointed as head of the State Security Branch in Tartus in 2016, and was promoted in early 2019 to the rank of Major General to be assigned the task of First Deputy Director of the General Intelligence Directorate.
He is a retired major general and one of the most prominent officers of the General Intelligence Directorate. He is married and has three children.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
He was appointed Governor of As-Suwayda Governorate on 12 May 2024 from Bashar al-Assad's Decree No. (101) of 2024.
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Category:People of the Syrian civil war
Category:21st-century Syrian politicians
Category:Syrian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
Category:Syrian individuals subject to the European Union sanctions