Birth name Mohammed Osama Askar Years of service 1978 - Unit 11th Infantry Regiment Commands held Third Army | Allegiance Egypt Rank Lieutenant General | |
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Born 17 April 1957 (age 59)Dakahlia, Egypt ( 1957-04-17 ) Battles/wars Suez WarSix Day WarYom Kippur War Battles and wars Suez Crisis, Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War Similar Sedki Sobhy, Mahmoud Hegazy, Sami Hafez Anan | ||
Lieutenant General Osama Askar is an Egyptian Army officer. He commands the Unified Command East of the Canal.
Askar was born in 1957 and attended the Nasser Military Academy. He has commanded a mechanized infantry brigade and the 23rd Mechanised Infantry Division, part of the Third Army. Up until 2015 he commanded the Third Field Army.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued two declarations in January 2015. The first changed the force structure of the army by creating a "unified command" to oversee counterterrorism operations east of the Suez Canal. The new command was created on Saturday, 31 January 2015. The second promoted Osama Askar, Third Army commander, to lieutenant general—one of a handful in the armed forces—and placed him in charge of the "unified command." He will also retain his seat on the SCAF. Askar’s former deputy, Muhammad Abdullah, has been appointed commander, and Tarek Anwar Helal the chief of staff, of the Third Field Army.