Husni al-Za'im
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Husni al-Za'im was a Syrian military officer who served as head of state of Syria in 1949. He had been an officer in the Ottoman Army. After France instituted its colonial mandate over Syria after the
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Husni al-Zaim in the middle, 1940s.
The March 1949 Syrian coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état that took place on 30 March. It was the first military coup in modern Syrian history and overthrew the country's democratically elected go
Husni al-Za'im
…state was brief; he was tried and executed in August 1949 by his former coup co-conspirators. On 30 March 1949, al-Za'im seized power in a bloodless coup d'état. There are 'highly controversial' allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) engineered the coup. Most of the evidence currently available…
Armored vehicles and soldiers in Damascus after the coup
Brochure about the coup d'etat
Husni al-Za'im alongside other Syrian military officers on the front of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Syrian officers after the coup