Fayyadh Al Ruwaili

Fayyadh Al Ruwaili (born 1958) is a Royal Saudi Air Force general who has chaired the General Staff of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces since February 2018 ^{1 2}.

Fayyadh bin Hamed bin Raqed Al Ruwaili was born on 27 April 1958 in Turaif governorate, in Saudi Arabia's Northern Borders region, and grew up in the town's Ruwaili quarter, now called al-Khalidiya ^{2 3}. The English article describes his family as a merchant family with ties to the Red Sea trade ¹. He was schooled in Turaif and Arar, graduated from King Faisal Air College as a pilot, and completed his flight training, including combat flying, in the United States, where he won four awards ².

Al Ruwaili rose through squadron and wing commands and the air force's plans and operations directorate, and was appointed commander of King Fahd Air Base and then, in 2012 by the Arabic article's dating, commander of the Royal Saudi Air Force, a tenure the English article gives as 2013 to 2014 ^{2 1}. King Abdullah appointed him Deputy Chairman of the General Staff in May 2014, and in February 2018 he succeeded Abdulrahman al-Bunian as Chairman of the General Staff ¹. In March 2022 he joined other Arab chiefs of staff in meeting the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Aviv Kohavi over the Iranian threat, in November 2024 he visited Tehran to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagheri, and in September 2026 he met IDF chief Eyal Zamir on security cooperation ¹. No text read for this record names a faith for Al Ruwaili himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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