Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar (Arabic: محمد إبراهيم الشعار; born 1950) is a Syrian military officer who served as Minister of the Interior from 2011 to 2018.

[3] He was the commander of the military police prior to being appointed minister of interior in April 2011,[2] replacing Said Mohammad Sammour.

[6][7] The Official Journal of the European Union states the reason for sanctions against him as "involvement in violent treatment of demonstrators".

[10] On 18 July 2012, there were conflicting reports on his fate, with CNN reporting that Syrian state run television confirmed that Shaar was killed following a bombing of a meeting of the Central Crisis Management Cell (CCMC) at the National Security headquarters in Damascus.

[13] On 19 December 2012, reports surfaced that Shaar had been admitted to the American University in Beirut hospital in Lebanon a few days earlier, after sustaining unspecified injuries in a bombing.