Maj. Gen. Hassan Badih Ali

General Information

 Place of Birth: al-Haffah Countryside

DOB: 1961

Alawite

Occupation: Pilot-Officer

Current Appointment

 Air Force and Air Defense Commander

Past Appointments

Year	Appointment
2020	Air Force & Air Defense Commander	1
2019	Air Force & Air Defense Deputy Commander	2
2018	Air Force 22 Commander	3
2015	Northern Unified Headquarters Commander	4
2011	14th Brigade Commander Air Force 22 Commander	5

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Past Appointments Year Appointment 2020 Air Force & Air Defense Commander 1 2019 Air Force & Air Defense Deputy Commander 2 2018 Air Force 22 Commander 3 2015 Northern Unified Headquarters Commander 4 2011 14th Brigade Commander Air Force 22 Commander 5 +963 944 550 711 Phone I +963 944 650 711 Phone II +963 991 338 020 Phone III

His Criminal Record: Maj. Gen. Hassan Badih Ali hails from the town of al-Haffah, which administratively belongs to the Latakia governorate.

He is an Alawite and is known for being his hateful sectarian penchants and his blatant criminality.

 

At the outset of the 2011 Syrian Revolution, Maj. Gen. Ali was a Brigadier General and commander of the 14^th Brigade. He was based in the Hama Airport. Abu Thohour Military Airport was under his purview as well. He headed it until December 2015. Over this period, he committed hundreds of massacres that affected the Syrian people and contributed to destroying their cities, towns, and villages, which, in turn, resulted in displacing them. Ali is considered to be directly responsible for all air operations by the 14^th Brigade starting 2011 all the way through the end of 2015 in the governorates close to the Hama and Abu Thohour Military Airports – especially in the governorates of Hama, Homs, Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia. The 14^th Brigade is considered responsible for more than 20,000 air operations since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution.

 

Here is a list of the massacres that were committed by the air force, under the command of Maj. Gen. Ali:

 

• On 28/8/2012, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in Kafr Nabl in the Idlib countryside, which resulted in 18 casualties due to the missiles and bombs the city was targeted with.
• On 13/4/2013, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the city of Saraqib, which resulted in 26 casualties due to the missiles and bombs the city was targeted with.
• On 11/1/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the city of Souran, northern Hama, which resulted in six casualties – including a woman – due to the missiles and bombs the city was targeted with.
• On 21/2/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the village of Oum al-Reesh, Idlib countryside, which resulted in the killing of five children, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 1/3/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the city of Kafr Takharim, Idlib countryside, which resulted in 16 casualties, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 15/3/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the city of Ma’arrat Misrin, Idlib countryside, which resulted in nine casualties, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 20/3/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the village of Ram Hamdan, Idlib countryside, which resulted in eight casualties, when the regime’s air force targeted a bus full of passengers at the town’s roundabout.
• On 5/5/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the town of Armanāz, Idlib countryside, which resulted in seven casualties and wounded 20 others, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 14/6/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the village of Kafr Battikh. Idlib countryside, which resulted in nine casualties, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 27/6/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the Binnish Subdistrict, which resulted in six casualties, due to the missiles and bombs the village was targeted with.
• On 29/7/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the town of Shanan, Idlib countryside, which resulted in seven casualties – including five children and two women – due to the missiles the town was targeted with.
• On 20/7/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the town of Ltamenah, northern Hama countryside, which resulted in six casualties – including a baby and two women – due to warplane shelling on the town’s vegetable market.
• On 11/8/2014, the Syrian regime’s air force committed a massacre in the town of Kafar Takharim, Idlib countryside, which resulted in nine casualties – including a child – as a result of warplane missile shelling.

Add to that the dozens upon dozens of massacres committed by the regime forces out of the Hama Miltary Airport and, at a later stage, the Shayrat Airbase in Homs.

On 15/12/2015, Maj. Gen. Hassan Ali was assigned to the command of the Northern Unified Headquarters in Shinshar in the Homs governorate, which is the headquarters overseeing the operations of the Air Force and Air Defense in the central and northern regions. Ali was promoted to the rank of Major General at the beginning of 2016. Transferring him to the Northern Headquarters was a step towards his promotion. He remained in the same position until mid-2018, when he assumed command of the 22^nd Division at Al Shayrat Airbase, east of Homs, succeeding the criminal Maj. Gen. Malik Hassan. Maj. Gen. Ali is considered responsible for all the crimes committed by the 22^nd Division’s aircraft in the governorates of Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia from the time they came under his supervision and until his appointment as Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense in November 2019, as a successor to Maj. Gen. Monzer Zamam.

On 10/10/2020, Maj. Gen. Ali was appointed Commander of the Air Forces and Air Defense, succeeding Maj. Gen. Ahmed Balloul, who went into retirement.