Osama al-Assaf

Osama Muhammad Saleh al-Assaf (born 1953) is a Syrian lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the People’s Assembly for the constituency of Abu Kamal since October 2025. He is the oldest member of the People’s Assembly. He presided over the first inaugural session of the People’s Assembly, the first legislature to convene since the fall of the Assad regime, until the members of the assembly elected Abdul Hamid al-Awak as Speaker.

Biography Al-Assaf was born in Raqqa in the Second Syrian Republic in 1953. After the revolution began, he participated in the revolutionary movement against Bashar al-Assad’s regime and served as a member of the Sharia and Human Rights Office of the local council in Abu Kamal after the Syrian Free Army took control of Abu Kamal in November 2012. Al-Assaf chaired the session until the selection process concluded, ''' during which he opened the nomination process for the position of Speaker and invited the members of the temporary legal committee to supervise the electoral process, oversee the counting of votes, and establish the electoral procedures.

Ahmed al-Omar, Wissam Zaghloul, and Bishr Hawi were appointed to a temporary legal committee tasked with overseeing the electoral process for the selection of the assembly’s leadership, while Abdul Hamid al-Awak, Mouayad Ghazlan al-Qablawi, and Mohammad Ramez Koraj submitted their candidacies for the position of Speaker of the People’s Assembly.