Nabih al-AzmaNabih al-Azma was a Syrian politician and the defense minister of Syria in 1946.BackgroundNabih was born in Damascus in 1886 to a notable family in Damascus and he was the nephew of Yusuf al-'Azma, members of the al-Azma family in Syria. He studied at the Ottoman Military Academy and graduated in 1917 from Istanbul.CareerHe was elected to the Syrian parliament, and served as defense minister in 1946.