Damascus historically has allowed exiled individuals safe haven in Syria and Hamas Politburo head Khalid Meshaal and his deputies continued to reside in Syria, while the Syrian government provided Meshaal security escorts for his motorcades.

Khaled Mashal, (,, also transcribed Khaled Mashaal, Khaled Meshaal and Khalid Mish ' al ; born 28 May 1956 ) has been the main leader of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas since the assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004.

They were identified as Luttif Afif ( Issa ), the leader ( three of Issa's brothers were also reportedly members of Black September, two of them in Israeli jails ), his deputy Yusuf Nazzal ( Tony ), and junior members Afif Ahmed Hamid ( Paolo ), Khalid Jawad ( Salah ), Ahmed Chic Thaa ( Abu Halla ), Mohammed Safady ( Badran ), Adnan Al-Gashey ( Denawi ), and his cousin Jamal Al-Gashey ( Samir ).

Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were both experienced and respected jihadists in the eyes of al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.

He put Syria under Sarraj, who effectively reduced the province into a police state by imprisoning and exiling Communists — including party leader Khalid Bakdash — and landholders who objected to the introduction of Egyptian agricultural reform in Syria.

Mossad agents used " levofentanyl " in their 1997 attempt to kill Hamas leader Khalid Mishal.

* Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, ( leader of Tehreek-e-Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and Secretary General of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam )

The most popular Muslim leader in Algeria after the war was Khalid ibn Hashim, grandson of Abd al Qadir and a member of the Young Algerians, although he differed with some members of the group over acceptance of the Jonnart Law.

Aslan ( Khalid ) Aliyevich Maskhadov ( Chechen: Аслан Али кӏант Масхадан, Latin: Aslan Ali kant Masxadaŋ, Russian: Аслан Алиевич Масхадов ) ( September 21, 1951 – March 8, 2005 ) was a leader of the Chechen separatist movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told him in August that if he wanted to go to Afghanistan, he should go in the next few weeks, because it would soon become more difficult.

In 1820 and onward, Khalid Shahrazuri rose as the prominent Naqshbandi leader in the Ottoman world.

* Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam

Khalid Bakdash ( 1912 – 1995 ; occasionally spelled Khalid Bagdash, ) was the leader of the Syrian Communist Party ( SCP ) from 1936 until his death.

The leader, Abu Khalid, a mathematics teacher in Gaza, gave Arafat the name Yasir in honor of the militant Yasir al-Bireh.

The Mossad agents waited at the entrance of the Hamas offices in Amman, with the intention of assassinating Khalid Mashal.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

Then US President George W. Bush accused Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the faces behind the attacks.

For example, the Islamic Republic expressed its opinion of Egypt's secular government by naming a street in Tehran after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's killer, Khalid al-Istanbuli.

In September 1943, Prince Faisal and Prince Khalid were invited to the US, and then Vice President Harry Truman organized a dinner for them at the White House.

In September 1943, Prince Faisal and Prince Khalid were invited to the US, and then Vice President Harry Truman organized a dinner for them at the White House.

King Khalid asked President Carter to sell advanced fighter planes to Saudi Arabia to assist in countering communist aggression in the area.

* Dr. Khalid Ranjha, Senior Vice President

The elected President is Mr Abu Mohamed, Deputy President Mr Ismail Yacoob, Vice President I Mr Raja Muhammad Khalid, Vice President II Mr Abdul Mutalib Bin Ithnin while the party's Secretary General is Mr M. Abdul Jamal Bin Abdul Rashid.

Among other celebrated recipients: King Khalid and Prince Fahed ( Saudi Arabia ), King Hassan ( Morocco ), Sheik Zyed ( United Arab Emirates ), President Anwar Sadat and President Hafez Assad ( Syria ).

President Obama was received by King Abdullah, Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz and Ambassador al-Jubeir at King Khalid International Airport.

On 2 June 2010, while speaking to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, former President George W. Bush publicly confirmed his knowledge and approval of waterboarding Mohammed, saying “ Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ... I'd do it again to save lives .”

Hashim Bay Khalid al-Atassi ( 1875 – December 5, 1960 ) () was a Syrian nationalist, statesman and its President from 1936 to 1939, 1949 to 1951, and 1954 to 1955.

Khalid Hassanali, son of former President of Trinidad and Tobago, Noor Hassanali, is a Vice-President for Corporate Administrative Services at Petrotrin, the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago ( a state-owned oil company ).

The organising team includes Abdullah Saqib ( President ), Smeeha Razvi ( Executive Vice President ), Adnan Kiani ( Finance Secretary ) Saad Ali ( General Secretary ), Amna Moeen ( Vice President Business School ), Abdul Haseeb ( Vice President CS ), Atif Javed ( Vice President, EE ), Ozair Butt ( Director Operations ), Rehana Khalid ( Invitations ), Mahrukh Shireen ( IT head ), Sulaiman Ashraf ( Registrations ), Hira Zainab ( Marketing ), Fatima Imdad ( Photography ), Sameed Ahmed ( Social Media ), Zohaib Siddique ( Lodging ), Khawaja Ali Arshad ( Food ), Aoun Mohammad-Wakas Raja ( Creative ), Awais Ashraf ( Decor ), Shza ' a Ehsan and Marvi Soomro ( Publications )

A strong cavalry regiment was formed by Khalid ibn Walid which included the veterans of the campaign of Iraq and Syria.

* August 15 – 20 – Battle of Yarmouk: In engagements along the Yarmouk River, Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate led by Khalid ibn al-Walid decisively defeat the armies of the Eastern Roman-Byzantine Empire, effectively completing the Muslim conquest of Syria.

* Khalid bin Walid, Muslim general, conqueror of Damascus and Syria

Abu Bakr's confidence grew, and once Khalid established his stronghold in Iraq, Abu Bakr issued a call to arms for the invasion of Syria in February 634.

Khalid was sent by Abu Bakr from Iraq to Syria with reinforcements and to lead the invasion.

In Syria and Lebanon, the leaders of every active Naqshbandiyya group has a silsila going back to sheikh Khalid of the Khalidiyya.

The Khalidiyya is a Naqshbandi order found in Syria and Lebanon having continued from the days of Khalid.

* The Arab army led by Khalid ibn al-Walid defeated the numerically superior forces of the powerful Persian and Roman empires during their conquest of Persia and conquest of Roman Syria.

While the Byzantine army held the Muslim forces in Southern Syria, and had expected the reinforcement from the conventional Syria-Arabia road in South, Khalid, who was in Iraq, marched through the Syrian desert and entered Northern Syria, completely taking the Byzantines by surprise, cutting off their communications with Northern Syria.

While Khalid was on his way to attack Qadissiyah ( a key fort in the way to the Persian capital Ctesiphon ), he received a letter from Caliph Abu Bakr and was sent to the Roman front in Syria to assume the command of the Muslim armies to conquer Roman Syria.

In 1954, after a series of military dictatorships that had lasted since 1949, Syria became a democracy, and in the elections held that year, Khalid Bakdash won a seat in parliament for the Damascus area, becoming the first communist elected to an Arab parliament.

It is said that Abdulrehamn was the only son of Khalid ibn Walid who had military prowess somewhat like his late father, he was respected and was famous because of his military services and his late father Khalid ibn Walid the conqueror of Roman Syria and Iraq.

He remained commander in chief of the Muslim army until Khalid ibn al-Walid arrived from Iraq to Syria in 634.

Map detailing the route of Khalid ibn al-Walid's invasion of central Syria.

Meanwhile, Abu Ubaidah and Khalid with a relatively larger corps moved north through Lebanon to conquer Lebanon and northern Syria.