Daas Hassan Ali

Daas Hassan Ali is a Syrian former Ba'athist brigadier general known for his role as director of the General Security Directorate in Deir ez-Zor, who was arrested in 2025 due to his role in coordinating the Western Syria clashes in Latakia.

Biography Ali was born in 1967 in the village of Khuraybat al-Qalaa in coastal Latakia to an Alawite family. Born and raised an Alawite from a military family, he joined the Syrian Arab Army at a young age eventually joining the elite Republican Guard. Human rights groups and eyewitnesses accuse him of orchestrating mass arrests, interrogations, and torture of protesters in the early months of the uprising. The Syrian government has accused Ali of using his experience in the intelligence community to coordinate these insurgents, namely with the Military Council for the Liberation of Syria formed by his close compatriot, brigadier general Ghiath Dalla, and that he was being moved from safehouse to safehouse by Alawite militias.