Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government
Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic
Date formed	1 January 1966
Date dissolved	23 February 1966
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Head of state	Amin al-Hafiz
Head of government	Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Deputy head of government	Adnan Shuman Rais al-Farhan al-Fayyad
Member party	Ba'ath Party
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Predecessor	First Yusuf Zuayyin Government
Successor	Second Yusuf Zuayyin Governmentt

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The Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from January to February 1966. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This government was the 73rd since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.^[1]

It was formed on January 1, 1966, and abruptly dissolved on February 23, 1966. This government was overthrown between 21 and 23 February 1966 in a coup d'état.^[2] The ruling National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party were removed from power by a union of a regionalists led by Salah Jadid.^[3]

• Dr. Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Dr. Adnan Shuman, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Labour
• Rais al-Farhan al-Fayyad, Deputy Prime Minister for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs
• Muwaffaq al-Sharbaji, Minister of Finance
• Fahmy al-Ashuri, Minister of Interior
• Major General Muhammad Umran, Minister of Defense
• Dr. Muhammad al-Fadil, Minister of Justice
• Jamil Thabit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
• Dr. Salah Wazzan, Minister of Agriculture
• Dr. Abdullah Abd al-Dayim, Minister of Education
• Dr. Kamal Hosni, Minister of Economy
• Shakir Mustafa, Minister of Information
• Dr. Abd al-Wahhab Khayatah, Minister of Planning
• Mahmud Tijar, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
• Kamal Shahadih, Minister of Supply
• Dr. Ahmed Badr al-Din, Minister of Transport
• Samih Fakhury, Minister of Public Works
• Jamil Haddad, Minister of Agrarian Reform
• Dr. Hanin Sayyaj, Minister of Health
• Hisham al-Aas, Minister of Industry
• Asaad Darqawi, Minister of Culture
• Mahmoud Arab Said, Minister of Awqaf
• Major General Mahmud Jabir, Minister for Presidential Affairs
• Bashir Qutb, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
• Yusuf Khabbaz, Minister of State Governance and Tourism
• Nazzal Diri, Minister of State for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs

• Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7065-1266-9.