No.
|
Portrait
|
Name (birth–death)
|
Term of office
|
Ref.
|
Took office
|
Left office
|
Time in office
|
1
|
|
Major general Abdullah Atfeh (1897–1976)
|
1947
|
1948
|
0–1 years
|
[1]
|
2
|
|
Brigadier general Husni al-Za'im (1897–1949)
|
1948
|
1949
|
0–1 years
|
|
3
|
|
Colonel Sami al-Hinnawi (1898–1950)
|
1949
|
1950
|
0–1 years
|
|
4
|
|
Brigadier general Anwar Bannud (1908–1979)
|
2 January 1950
|
23 April 1951
|
1 year, 111 days
|
[2]
|
5
|
|
Fawzi Selu (1905–1972)
|
23 April 1951
|
1953
|
1–2 years
|
|
6
|
|
General Shawkat Shuqayr (1912–1982)
|
1953
|
8 July 1956
|
2–3 years
|
|
7
|
|
Tawfiq Nizam al-Din
|
8 July 1956
|
1957
|
0–1 years
|
|
8
|
|
Lieutenant general Afif al-Bizri (1912–1982)
|
1957
|
1959
|
1–2 years
|
|
9
|
|
Jamal al-Faisal
|
1959
|
|
|
|
10
|
|
General Abdul Karim Zahreddine (1917–2009)
|
16 April 1962
|
8 March 1963
|
326 days
|
|
11
|
|
Major general Ziad al-Hariri (born 1930)
|
8 March 1963
|
8 July 1963
|
122 days
|
|
12
|
|
Major general Salah Jadid (1926–1993)
|
11 November 1963
|
1966
|
2–3 years
|
[3]
|
13
|
|
Major general Ahmed Suidani (1932–1994)
|
February 1966
|
February 1968
|
1–2 years
|
|
14
|
|
Colonel general Mustafa Tlass (1932–2017)
|
1968
|
1972
|
3–4 years
|
|
15
|
|
Colonel general Yusuf Shakkur (1926–2018)
|
1972
|
1974
|
1–2 years
|
|
16
|
|
Colonel general Hikmat al-Shihabi (1931–2013)
|
12 August 1974
|
8 July 1998
|
23 years, 330 days
|
[4]
|
17
|
|
Lieutenant general Ali Aslan (born 1932)
|
8 July 1998
|
23 January 2002
|
3 years, 199 days
|
[5]
|
18
|
|
Lieutenant general Hasan Turkmani (1935–2012)
|
23 January 2002
|
12 May 2004
|
2 years, 110 days
|
[6][7]
|
19
|
|
Colonel general Ali Habib Mahmud (1939–2020)
|
12 May 2004
|
3 June 2009
|
5 years, 22 days
|
[8][9] [10]
|
20
|
|
Colonel general Dawoud Rajiha (1947–2012)
|
3 June 2009
|
8 August 2011
|
2 years, 66 days
|
[11][12] [13]
|
21
|
|
Colonel general Fahd Jassem al-Freij (born 1950)
|
8 August 2011
|
18 July 2012
|
345 days
|
[14]
|
22
|
|
Lieutenant general Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (born 1952)
|
18 July 2012
|
1 January 2018
|
5 years, 167 days
|
[15]
|
Vacant[16] 1 January 2018–1 April 2019
|
23
|
|
Lieutenant general Salim Harba
|
1 April 2019
|
30 April 2022
|
3 years, 29 days
|
[17]
|
24
|
|
Lieutenant general Abdul Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim
|
30 April 2022
|
Incumbent
|
2 years, 20 days
|
[18]
|