Mohammed Ali Al-Maqdashi

Mohammed Ali Al-Maqdashi
Advisor to the Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council
Assumed office
28 July 2022
Appointed byRashad al-Alimi
Prime MinisterMaeen Abdulmalik Saeed
Defense Minister
In office
7 November 2018  28 July 2022
Appointed byAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Preceded byMahmoud al-Subaihi
Succeeded byMohsen Mohammed Al-Daeri
Chief of the Yemeni Armed Forces Staff
In office
3 May 2015  8 November 2018
Appointed byAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Preceded byHussein Khairan
Succeeded byTaher Al-Auqaili
Personal details
Born1962 (age 6263)
Dhamar Governorate, North Yemen
Military service
Allegiance Yemen
Branch/service Yemen Army
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/warsYemeni Civil War (1994)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)

Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Al-Maqdashi (Arabic: محمد علي المقدشي; born 1962) is a Yemeni military officer. On 28 July 2022 he appointed by Rashad Al-Alaimi as an advisor to the Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council for military and security affairs. He was previously Yemeni Minister of Defense, and a military advisor to former President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. He also served as chief of staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces.

On 19 February 2020, a landmine explosion struck the motorcade of the Hadi Government Ministry of Defense in Marib leaving six bodyguards dead. Ali Al-Maqdashi survived the attack.