Wafiq Nasser

Wafiq Nasser
Chief of Military Intelligence in Suwayda
In office
October 2011 – 2018
Preceded bySuhail Ramadan
Chief of Military Intelligence in Hama
Incumbent
Assumed office
2018
Chief of Military Intelligence in Aleppo
In office
2022–2023
Head of the Security Committee
In office
July 2012 – November 2017
Succeeded byKifah Moulhem
Military service
Allegiance Ba'athist Syria
Battles/wars

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.

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.

Nasser was the Chief of Military Intelligence in Suwayda from October 2011 until 2018.

He was appointed the head of the Security Committee in southern Syria, which he headed from 2012 until 2017.

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.

He was forced into retirement in January 2023.

Sanctions

The United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned him in July 2021.

References

  1. 1 2 Karam Mansour (26 March 2024). "How Suwayda became a drug-smuggling hub". Syria Direct. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 ""من السويداء إلى حماة ثم حلب".. وفيق ناصر جوكر مخابرات أسد". Orient News (in Arabic). 21 January 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Wafiq Nasser". Pro-Justice. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  4. ↑ "Aleppo: Military Security takes charge of "security chaos" control". Enab Baladi. 18 April 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  5. ↑ William Christou (5 January 2023). "Syrian general who committed war crimes forced to retire by regime". The New Arab. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Treasury Sanctions Syrian Regime Prisons, Officials, and Syrian Armed Group". United States Department of the Treasury. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2025.