The Arab Baath Movement was founded by Michel Aflaq in 1940. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus as rebel forces, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, entered the capital, marking what they ...

How Saddam Hussein used the Ba'ath Party to remain in power Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party dominated Iraq for over three decades. In this article, The Majalla examines how the party functioned as both ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Iraq has reinstated about 20,000 troops from Saddam Hussein's army under an initiative launched in 2008, but officials have denied that the most recent reintegration was related ...

FOR at least the last two years, national reconcilia tion has been the buzz phrase in all discussions on Iraq’s future as it struggles to convince its friends to continue supporting it while fighting ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s electoral commission announced on Sunday that nearly 300 parliament candidates have been disqualified from the upcoming November legislative elections, state media ...

The fall of the Assad regime marked the end of the Ba'athist dream, a utopia that had once promised freedom, justice, and unity for the Arab world. Founded in Syria in April 1947 by Michel Aflaq, Zaki ...

The Iraqi Special Tribunal, tasked with prosecuting former dictator Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, is contemplating a change to its founding statute in preparation for purging the court of suspected ...

We are writing to the Presidency Council with regard to the Law for the Supreme National Commission for Accountability and Justice, which was approved on February 3, 2008. Having investigated and ...

The United States on 15 April held the first of a series of regional meetings to discuss possible strategies for Iraq's political development. Opposition leaders present in Nasiriyah adopted a joint ...