Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad (Arabic: جعفر محمد سعد; born 1950 – died 6 December 2015) was a Yemeni politician and soldier.

[2] Local officials said he fought for South Yemen in the Yemeni Civil War of 1994 and later lived in exile in Egypt and the United Kingdom.

[3] Saad, who held the rank of Major-General, helped government forces defend the city of Aden from Houthis in the Yemeni Civil War of 2015.

[4] Saad was assassinated in a car bombing on his convoy in the Tawahi district of Aden on 6 December 2015.

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack.