Wafiq Nasser


Wafiq Nasser is a Syrian former intelligence officer who served as the regional head of the Military Intelligence Directorate in various governorates from 2011 until 2023.

Career

He served as a colonel in the Republican Guard in the early years of the Syrian Civil War and took part in raids on Daraa.
Nasser was the Chief of Military Intelligence in Suwayda from October 2011 until 2018.
He was appointed the head of the Security Committee in southern Syria, which he headed from 2012 until 2017.
Nasser and the Military Intelligence Directorate were given control of Aleppo in April 2022, following the failure of the General Intelligence Directorate to retain control.
He was forced into retirement in January 2023.

Sanctions

The United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned him in July 2021.