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Baath Party
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Baath Party
A political party in the Middle East advocating secular, socialist policies intended to free Arab-majority countries from Western influence. It was established in 1940 in Syria. Its Syrian and Iraqi branches split in 1955 and became antagonistic toward each other. It became the ruling party of Syria in 1963 and was in charge of Iraq from 1968 until 2003.


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They are trying to appeal to the liberals and the seculars, and more importantly the unrepresented Iraqi Ba'athists.
The statement emphasized the necessity of treating the security breaches via clearing the security forces from Ba'athists who stand against the political process in Iraq as well as compensating families of the martyrs and injuries.
Nevertheless, Hizb ut-Tahrir had much more in common in terms of political structure with secular parties such as the Ba'athists, later to become a ruling party in Iraq and Syria, than it did with the major Islamic political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
 
 
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