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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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After Iraq demanded that Damascus turn over two Iraqi Ba'th Party leaders living in Syria, Muhammad Younes al-Ahmad and Sattam Farhan, who were accused of being part of that attack, Iraqi authorities sent additional police brigades to the borders with Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Saghir said many of the journalists were members of Saddam's banned Ba'th Party and promised to punish the offenders.
This has coincided with a recent surge in violence, with the formerly-ruling Ba'th Party now fielding more fighters for the insurgency and the Sunni/Neo-Salafi groups led by al-Qaeda are thus being saved of total collapse, though US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the latter group's presence in Iraq is about to end.
 
 
 
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