51 Middle Eastern military personnel stubs

Sharon Afek is the current chief military advocate general of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), appointed in October 2015.

Hossam Mohammed Amin was an Iraqi general under Saddam Hussein's government. He said in 2002 that Iraq would submit a list of chemical, biological and nuclear programs to UNMOVIC, but that the report would not disclose any banned weapons, "because, really, we have no weapons of mass destruction."

Shimon Avidan, born Siegbert Koch, was an Israeli soldier and officer, the commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Fadhil Jamil al-Barwari was an Iraqi military commander who was the head of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Bureau.

Haim Ben-David was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces, the second Military Secretary to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and the head of the Manpower Directorate. After his military service, Ben-David was appointed ambassador to Ethiopia where he was killed in a plane accident in line of duty.

Aluf Eyal Ben-Reuven is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the military colleges and senior field commander. He is the former deputy commander of the Northern Command, for which he still serves as a reserve.

Aluf (ret.) Herzl Bodinger is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force. Today, Bodinger is member of the International Board of Governors of Ariel University.

Emile Boustany (1909–2002) was born in Jounieh. He served as a Commander of General rank in the Lebanese Armed Forces from 1 July 1965 to 6 January 1970.

Datis or Datus, was a Median admiral who served the Persian Empire, under Darius the Great. He was an expert in Greek affairs and maintained connections with Greek officials. He is noted for his joint leadership with the younger Artaphernes of the Persian forces in the first campaign of the Persian Wars against the Greeks. His earlier career is not known.

Saber Abdel Aziz al-Douri is a former Iraqi politician, intelligence officer and Governor of Bagdad.

Mickey Edelstein is a major-general in the Israeli Defense Forces, and the IDF's military attaché in the United States.

Nathan Elbaz was an Israel Defense Forces soldier that sacrificed his life for his friends, receiving the Medal of Distinguished Service.

Lt. General Sabah al-Fatlawi is an Iraqi military commander. He is currently the Chief Commander of the Samarra Special Forces Command.

Lieutenant General Mahmoud Freihat is a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces. Freihat was appointed to this position on 2 October 2016 and served until 24 July 2019.

Yeshayahu "Shaike" Gavish is a retired Israel Defense Forces Major General known for leading the IDF forces in the Sinai Peninsula front during the Six-Day War.

Eli Geva is an Israeli brigade commander, who during the Siege of Beirut, refused to lead his forces into the city for moral reasons which he termed "endangerment of both soldiers and civilians in urban warfare". The Israeli Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin attempted to negotiate with Geva, but he insisted and was consequently dismissed from the Israel Defense Forces. At the time, Geva was the youngest Colonel in the IDF.

Lt. General Mahdi Sabeh Al-Gharawi is an Iraq police officer, the former Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police in Ninewa Province, and Lieutenant General of Iraqi Army.

Hafiz Hakki Pasha, was a general of the Ottoman Army.

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Major General Yousef Huneiti is the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces. Huneiti was appointed to this position on 24 July 2019. Huneiti is the first Jordanian Air Force commander to be appointed Army Chief.

Iskender Pasha was an Ottoman commander and the beylerbey of Oczakov (Ozi). In 1620 Iskender Paşa led an Ottoman army, with Wallachian contingents (13,000-22,000) against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Cecora, where he was victorious. In 1613–1614 he was the beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet.

Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky is an Israeli army general and businessman who served as CEO of the Israeli subsidiary of Better Place. Most recently, he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Forces's Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the West Bank. As Deputy Chief of the General Staff he was second in command of the Israel Defense Forces.

Haydar al-Kuzbari was a Syrian lieutenant colonel who took part in the 1961 Syrian coup d'état that led to the dissolution of the United Arab Republic. He was once offered from Saudi Arabia to be the general of Saudi Arabia but rejected the offer and remained the general of Syria. At one time he was a good friend of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Ben-Zion Leitner was an Israeli soldier, who received the nation's highest military decoration, the Hero of Israel citation, for heroism during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Giora Lev was the 7th mayor of Petah Tikva (1989-1998) and Brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces.

Amiram Levin is a retired Aluf of the Israel Defense Forces.

Salah Aboud Mahmoud is a former Iraqi Army general, best known for his role in Battle of Khafji and 73 Easting, during the Persian Gulf War.

Nureddin Mahmud (1899-1981) was the 20th Prime Minister of Iraq from 23 November 1952 until 29 January 1953.

Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid was the commander of the Iraqi Army between 2006 and September 2014.He is from the Balad Ruz area of Diyala province, Iraq. He served in the Iraqi Army during the regime of Saddam Hussein, but like a number of other generals, was imprisoned by Saddam following the Gulf War.

Aluf Yusef Mishleb is a retired Druze general in the Israel Defense Forces serving last in the position as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Mishleb retired in September 2008 after four years in the job and over 35 years in the Israel Defense Forces.

Aluf Avi (Abraham) Mizrahi is a general in the Israel Defense Forces, the Head of Israeli Central Command between October 2009 and March 2012.

Moshe Nativ was Israel Defense Forces Major General and former head of the Manpower Directorate.

Ahmed Hifzi Pasha was an Ottoman field marshal, who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Army that successfully defeated the Greeks on the Epirus front in the Greco-Turkish War (1897).

Benny Peled, born Binyamin Weidenfeld in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, was the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf.

Colonel Mohommed Rayyan, nicknamed "Sky Falcon," was a fighter pilot with the Iraqi Air Force during the Iran–Iraq War. He scored 5 air combat kills, making him an ace and the most successful Iraqi fighter pilot of that war.He was the most successful MiG-25 pilot.

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat is a former Iraqi Army general.

David Rokni (Hebrew: דוד רוקני‎, is an Israeli colonel. He became an Israeli icon as the commander of the annual Israel Independence Day torch lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for nearly four decades.

Sayyid Muhammad-Hasan al-Sadr was an Iraqi Shi'ite statesman. He served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 29 January 1948 to 26 June 1948.

Abdul Qader Saleh, also known as Haji Mare', was one of the founding commanders of the al-Tawhid Brigade, an Islamist rebel group in the Syrian Civil War.

Colonel Mahmud Salman was the Commanding Officer in the Royal Iraqi Air Force in the late 1930s and as a member of the Golden Square, was one of the four principal instigators of the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état.

Yom Tov Samia is a retired Israeli general. He was head of the Israel Defense Forces' Southern Command from January 2001 to December 2003. He retired from military service as a major general.

Salih Jabr was an Iraqi statesman. In the 1930s and 1940s, he attended the office of minister of justice, education, foreign affairs, interior, and finance. He was the 16th prime minister of Iraq from 29 March 1947 - 27 January 1948 and the first Shiite to become prime minister. He was not accepted by young liberal and nationalist politicians who had been roughly handled when he was wartime minister of interior. During his time in office, the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1948), a revision of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930), was prepared and signed without consultation of other Iraqi leaders. His government fell after the bloody suppression of the anti-British Al-Wathbah uprising, he had to repudiate the treaty and fled to England on 26 January 1948.

Mr. Gadi Shamni is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces and formerly Israel's military attaché in the United States, IDF central command commander and the military secretary to prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.

Ehud Shani is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Head of C4I and Senior Field Commander.

General Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal born in Mosul, Iraq was an Iraqi senior officer and war minister for a very long period of time, also he held the position of minister of military affairs and chief of staff.

Iftach Spector is a retired Israeli brigadier general, a former fighter pilot and commander of the airbases at Tel Nof and Ramat David. He serves on the Israel Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum.

Muzahim Saab Hassan al-Tikriti was the Air Defense Forces Commander of Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein from 1999 until 2003.

Mustafa Mahmood Al-Umari from Mosul, Iraq (Sunni-Arab) who became an Iraqi statesman. He served as prime minister from 9 July 1952 until 22 November 1952. He was appointed by King Faisal II's cousin and regent 'Abd al-Ilāh after nationwide protests against the government. Starting out as an attorney and civil servant, he served many posts including Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice. In 1952, his failure to maintain control during the Intifada cost him his position. He was also a provincial Governor and Senator in Parliament. After the 1958 revolution against the Monarchy, he left the political scene. Being an independent, he was not associated with many of the royalists or partisans who were jailed or executed in the aftermath of the revolution. He later left to the UK for medical treatment and died there. He was later buried in the Al-Omari waqf cemetery in Mosul, Iraq.

Mashal Mohammad Al-Zaben was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces between 23 February 2010 and 2 October 2016. On 22 May 2012 Al-Zaben was promoted to General, and received the Istiqlal Medal of the First Order.

Ayad Khalil Zaki was an Iraqi Army General. A career Combat engineering officer, he later served as the Governor of Muthanna Province after retiring from military service.

Eli Zeira is a former major general in the Israel Defense Forces. He was director of Aman, Israel's military intelligence, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He is most remembered for his ill-conceived prewar assessment that Egypt and Syria would not attack, despite intelligence to the contrary.