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Senior officials in the Baath Party in a rare un-official photograph with Salah Jadid from 1969
From left to right: Interior Minister Mohammad Rabah al-Tawil, Chief of Staff General Mustapha Tlass, Commander of the Golan Front Ahmad al-Meer, and Salah Jadid, the military strongman of Syria

President Hafez al-Assad and Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass at the war front during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973
Standing behind Tlass is Bassem Sheikh Korush, the future bureau chief for Chief-of-Staff Hikmat Shihabi.

President Hafez al-Assad with his Lebanese counterpart Amin Gemayel in Damascus in 1988
At the Rawda Palace in Damascus, from left to right: Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, President Gemayel, President Assad, Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami, Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara

President Hafez al-Assad with his top officials in the late 1980s
From left to right: Prime Minister Abdul Raouf al-Kassem, Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, President Hafez al-Assad. Behind Assad stands Abdullah al-Ahmar, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Baath Party

President Hafez al-Assad at the funeral of his son Basel in January 1994
From left to right: Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, Assistant Regional Secretary-General of the Baath Party Suleiman Qaddah, Assistant Secretary-General of the Baath Abdullah al-Ahmar, President Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Mufti of Damascus Abdul Fattah al-Bizem, and Vice-President Zuhair Masharka.

At the residence of Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri in Beirut in 2002
From left to right: Firas Tlass, General Ghazi Kenaan, the director of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon, Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, Syrian Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, Lebanese Defense Minister Muhsen Daloul, and Syrian General Ibrahim al-Safi.

President Hafez al-Assad with the family of his long-time friend, Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass in 2000
From left to right: Lamia al-Jabri Tlass, Tala Kheir Tlass, President Assad, Manaf Tlass, Firas Tlass, Rania al-Jabri Tlass

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia at the Grand Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1973
Standing, sixth from left, is Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, followed by King Faisal, President Hafez al-Assad, Prince Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz. Seated is Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Kaftaro next to Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam