Issam Zahreddine

Quick Facts

Full Name	Issam Zahreddine
Occupation	General
Date Of Birth	Sep 9, 1961(1961-09-09)
Age	63
Date Of Death	October 18, 2017, Deir ez-Zur, Syria
Birthplace	As-Suwayda
Country	Syria
Birth City	As-Suwayda Governorate
Horoscope	Virgo

Issam Zahreddine Biography

Issam Zahreddine is one of the most popular and richest General who was born on September 9, 1961 in As-Suwayda, As-Suwayda Governorate, Syria.

Zahreddine commanded the Republican Guard’s 104th Brigade in Douma and Harasta alongside Brigadier General Manaf Tlass before the latter’s defection. This brigade was led by Bashar al-Assad before he became President, and by Basil Assad until his death in 1994. According to testimony from a defector to Human Rights Watch, Zahreddine ordered the systematic beating of arrested protestors in Douma during the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War; for these alleged actions, he became known as the “Druze Beast” among the Syrian opposition, although no evidence of misconduct was ever presented.

Issam’s oldest son, Yarob, also fights with the 104th Brigade in Deir ez-Zor.

Issam Zahreddine Net Worth

Issam Zahreddine is one of the richest General from Syria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Issam Zahreddine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Zahreddine was born in the small rural village of Tarba in the As-Suwayda Governorate in 1961. A member of the Druze religious community, he was commissioned as an officer in the Airborne (Special Forces) Armoured units in

1982. Before that he served in the Baath Party’s People’s Militia (Popular Militia) as a conscript from 1980 to 1982. In 1987, he was inducted into the Republican Guard as an Armoured and Mechanized Units’ officer.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Issam Zahreddine Dating?

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In 2016, he was pictured posing next to hanging corpses of ISIS fighters that appeared to have been tortured and cut up or were remains of a suicide bombing. In 2017, Zahreddine was added to a European Union sanctions list for his role in “violent repression against the civilian population, including during the siege of Baba Amr in February 2012.”

Facts & Trivia

Jafar Ranked on the list of most popular General. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Syria. Issam Zahreddine celebrates birthday on September 9 of every year.

On 5 September 2017, Zahreddine was congratulated by President Bashar Assad for his role at Deir ez-Zor during the over 3-year long siege of the city by ISIS. He used the occasion to thank allies for lifting the siege and tell Syrian refugees to “never return”, saying that “even if the state forgives you, we will never forgive nor forget”. In a subsequent audio message, however, Zahreddine claimed that he had meant that only those who had taken up arms against the Syrian Army should not return.