Mustafa Tlass

Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (11 May 1932 – 19 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer and politician. He was born in Rastan, French Mandate of Syria. He was Syria's Minister of Defense from 1972 to 2004. He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez al-Assad era.
He had the rank of colonel general.
Tlass died on 19 June 2017 in Paris, France at the age of 85.