Mohammad Khaled al-Rahmoun (Arabic: محمد خالد الرحمون, born 1957) is a former military commander, and served as Syrian Minister of the Interior prior to the fall of the Assad regime.
[5] In 2004, he assumed office of director at the Air Force Intelligence Department in Daraa, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, then he rose through the military ranks and security positions until he assumed the position as director of the Air Force Intelligence Branch in the southern region located in the city of Harasta in 2011.
[5] During the Syrian Civil War, he was held responsible for numerous human rights violations in Daraa governorate, including arbitrary arrests, torture, forced disappearances, and indiscriminate shelling of towns, causing thousands of civilians to be displaced.
[6] In mid-2015, by decree of Bashar al-Assad, al-Rahmoun was appointed as head of the Political Security Directorate of the Syrian Interior Ministry.
In 2019, he was sanctioned by the European Union and the United Kingdom, owing to his participation in the Syrian chemical weapons program and complicity in the Ghouta massacre.