The name of Abdul Halim Khaddam was associated with an important era in the history of the Syrian regime, as he worked closely with former President Hafez al-Assad, whose period of rule witnessed transformations that were dominated by oppression and oppression against everyone who stood in the face of the regime.
But the man surprised the world in 2005 when he declared himself an opponent of the regime under which he had been raised for about 30 years, after he fled to France and began attacking Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
At the age of 88, Khaddam M died of a heart attack in France, where he was residing
The man worked for three decades in the Syrian state during the era of its late president, Hafez al-Assad, and then worked with President Bashar, who took office in 2000 and became his deputy until his resignation in 2005.
Khaddam was born in the city of Baniyas in the north of the country in 1932. He studied law, and began his work in the legal profession until 1963 when he became a member of the Baath Party, where he rose through the ranks and was then appointed governor of the Quneitra region and then governor of Damascus.
