Salah Jadid

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Salah Jadid
صلاح جديد‎
Assistant Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office 1 August 1965 – 13 November 1970
Regional Secretary	Amin al-Hafiz Nureddin al-Atassi
Preceded by	Muhammad az-Zubi
Succeeded by	Jaber Bajbouj
Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army
In office 11 November 1963 – 1966
Preceded by	Ziad al-Hariri
Succeeded by	Ahmed Suidani
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office March 1966 – 13 November 1970
In office 1 February 1964 – 19 December 1965
Personal details
Born	1926 (1926) Dweir Baabda, Alawite State, French Syria
Died	19 August 1993(1993-08-19) (aged 66–67) Mezzeh prison, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
Political party	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Other political affiliations	Ba'ath Party (1947–1966) Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Military service
Allegiance	First Syrian Republic (1946–1950) Second Syrian Republic (1950–1958; 1961–1963)  United Arab Republic (1958–1961)  Ba'athist Syria (1963–1970)
Branch/service	Syrian Army
Years of service	1946–1970
Rank	Major General
Battles/wars	First Arab-Israeli War Six-Day War War of Attrition Jordanian Civil War

Salah Jadid (Arabic: صلاح جديد, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Jadīd; 1926 – 19 August 1993) was a Syrian military officer and politician who was the leader of the far-left bloc of the Syrian Regional Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the de facto leader of Ba'athist Syria from 1966 until 1970, when he was ousted by Hafez al-Assad's Corrective Movement.