Khaled al-Ayoubi

Khaled al-Ayoubi is a former Syrian diplomat. On 30 July 2012, he informed the Britain's Foreign Office that he left his post as Chargé d'Affaires in the Syrian embassy in London. He was the most senior Syrian diplomat left in London after the British government forced embassy staff to leave in May.

Al-Ayoubi, an ethnic Kurd, He studied at Damascus University and worked as a computer technician at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs before undertaking further study from 1995 to 1999. He was posted to Greece as consul from 2003-2008, and then returned to Syria. His departure was characterized as another blow to the Syrian government.

Following his resignation, al-Ayoubi and his family were provided with a safe house by the Foreign Office, and then moved to Barnsley, South Yorkshire, where al-Ayoubi volunteers at the Barnsley Refugee Advice Project, keeps budgerigars, and gardens.