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Ahmad Abu Salih (أحمد أبو صالح, 1927 &#x2013; 2018), was a Syrian politician and a member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the former Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He served as the Syrian Minister of Transportation and Minister of Agriculture. In 1948, he received a diploma in telephone engineering from Egypt. After returning to Syria, he joined the Arab Ba'ath Party. Later, he studied engineering in Belgium and returned to Syria in 1953 after completing his studies.

In 1954, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Damascus University and graduated in 1958. After graduation, he worked as a lawyer.

In the Ba'ath Party
He was one of the most prominent activists in the Ba'ath Party in Aleppo. After the union of Egypt and Syria in 1958, which was known as the United Arab Republic, he became the leader of the National Union in Aleppo. He was also one of the six members who governed Syria during the union through the Executive Council of the Northern Region of the United Arab Republic, which was chaired by Abdul-Hameed al-Sarraj.

In July 1961, after he wrote a memorandum criticizing the regime, Gamal Abdel Nasser, then president of the United Arab Republic, dismissed him, stripped him of all his positions, and restricted his residence.

Arrest
Following the military coup in Syria in 1966, he was arrested and remained in prison until his release after the defeat in 1967. After his release, he tried with others to organize a new coup attempt, as a result of which he was arrested and then released after suffering various tortures in prison. After another attempt to capture him, he fled from Syria to Iraq.

He died in exile in Prague, Czech Republic on July 12, 2018.