# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maher-al-assad
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:35:12.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maher-al-assad"
name: "Maher al-Assad"
slug: "maher-al-assad"
description: "Major General Maher al-Assad is a Syrian former military officer who served as commander of the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armoured Division, which, together with Syria's Military Intelligence, formed the core of the Assad regime's security forces until its collapse in 2024. He is the younger brother of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and also was a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Ba'ath Party."
tagline: "Syrian general and commander of the Republican Guard"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maher_al-Assad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1967-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.54
  momentum:             10
  historical:           23.54911066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump