The National Security Bureau (), officially the National Security Bureau of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch (), is a

Ba'ath Party The Arab Socialist Baʿath Party ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي ' ) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bītār, and associates of Zaki al-ʾArsūzī. The party espoused B ...

bureau which coordinates the work of Syria's intelligence agencies and advises the Regional Secretary. The individual intelligence agencies, however, in practice have a significant degree of independence and generally report directly to the president. The current head of the National Security Bureau is

Ali Mamlouk Ali Mamlouk ( ar, علي مملوك) (born 19 February 1946) is a special security adviser to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and is one of his trusted men. Mamlouk is also head of the National Security Bureau of the Ba'ath Party. Early life ...

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Abd al-Karim al-Jundi Abd al-Karim al-Jundi ( ar, عبد الكريم الجندي; 1932 – 2 March 1969) was a Syrian officer and a founding member of the Ba'ath Party's Military Committee which took over power in the country after the 1963 military coup. He also ...

(September 1966 – 2 March 1969) *

Naji Jamil Naji (also transliterated as Nagy in Egyptian Arabic and Naci ( Turkish), ar, ناجي, ) is an Arabic male given name, which is derived from the Arabic verb ''to survive''. It is also a surname. Given name * Najee Harris (born March 9, 1998), ...

(November 1970 – March 1978) * Ahmad Diyab (1979–1987) *

Abdul Rauf al-Kasm Abdul Rauf al-Kasm ( ar, عبد الرؤوف الكسم, ʿAbd ar-Raʾūf al-Kasm) (born 1932) is a Syrian architect, academic and politician who served as prime minister of Syria during the 1980s. Early life Kasm was born in Damascus in 1932. Ab ...

(1987 – 17 June 2000) * Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan (21 June 2000 – 6 June 2005) *

Hisham Ikhtiyar Major General Hisham Ikhtiyar ( ar, هشام اختيار); 1941 – 20 July 2012) (family name also transliterated as Ikhtiar, Bakhtiar, Bekhityar, Bekhtyar and other variants) was a Syrian military official, and a national security adviser to p ...

(9 June 2005 – 18 July 2012) *

(25 July 2012 – present)

Syrian intelligence agencies

* General Intelligence Directorate ( Internal Branch - 251) *

Political Security Directorate Political Security Directorate (PSD, ar, إدارة الأمن السياسي, ''Idarat al-Amn al-Siyasi'') is an intelligence service of the Syrian government. It is divided into an Internal Security Department and an External Security Departm ...

* Military Intelligence Directorate *

Air Force Intelligence Directorate The Air Force Intelligence Directorate ( ar, إدارة المخابرات الجوية, ''Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya'') is an intelligence service of Syria, possibly the country's most powerful, owing its importance to Hafez al-Assad's role ...

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