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Sagheer Hamoud Aziz | |
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صغير حمود عزيز بن عزيز | |
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Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Army disputed by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (Supreme Political Council) | |
Assumed office 28 February 2020 | |
President | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,Rashad al-Alimi |
Prime Minister | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak |
Preceded by | ِAbdullah Al-Nakha'ai |
Commander of the Joint Operations of the Yemeni Army | |
Assumed office 11 July 2019 | |
Appointed by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
Personal details | |
Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Al-Amashyah,Harf Sufyan District,Amran Governorate,North Yemen |
Nationality | ![]() |
Political party | General People's Congress |
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Military service | |
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Battles/wars | Yemeni Civil War (1994) Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) |
Sagheer Hamoud Ahmed Aziz (Arabic :صغيرحموداحمدعزيز) (born 1967),sometimes spelled "Sagher Hamood,or Saghir",commonly known as Sagheer bin Aziz,is a Yemeni politician,MP,and military officer. He is the current chief of the Yemeni Armed Forces Staff. [1] He is also a GPC member in the Yemeni Parliament,for the parliamentary session 2003–2009 for constituency No. (280) B Amran Governorate,north Yemen. [2] On 28 February 2020,he was appointed as Chief of the General Staff of the Yemeni Army and promoted to Lt. Gen. [3] [4]
Born in Al-Amashyah,Harf Sufyan District,Amran Governorate. He completed his primary schooling there,and continued his high education in Sana'a. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Sanaa University in 2000.
He is a GPC member Members of the Yemeni House of Representatives and elected to the Yemeni Parliament in 1997 and 2003 parliamentary sessions. [5] He is also a member of the National Dialogue Conference.
Sagheer bin Azizi joined the military service in the Republican Guard in 1983. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in 1990 then to the rank of Brigadier in the Yemeni Army in 2007.
On 27 May 2020,a missile strike targeted the Yemeni army's chief of staff Sagheer bin Aziz during a meeting with military leaders at Sahn al-Jan military base near Marib. [9] [10] He survived the attack,but his son Fahd Aziz and his nephew Abdul Qawi were killed. Six other soldiers who were accompanying Gen Sagheer were also killed. [11] [12]