From the Arabic word baʿath literally, renaissance
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A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighbourhood on Sunday, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
Sham FM, a pro-government radio station, also reported the strike in Baath.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Although he had fought against the rule of Saddam’s Baath Party, the U.S. forces who arrived in 2003 accused him and his party of ties to extremist groups.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Most Baath Party-era documents are held by the government, while others were destroyed after the invasion.
From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023
Is it going to be ex-soldiers, much like what happened in Iraq when the Baath party was removed from power and the Iraqi army was demobilized?
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2019
When Hussein was deposed in Iraq, the military officers, Ba’ath Party loyalists and regime-tied sycophants who ruled the roost for nearly a quarter-century were forced to make do with an entirely new situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
Meanwhile, Lebanese newspaper Nida al-Watan reports that Mamlouk was smuggled across the border and into the Lebanese capital Beirut by Hezbollah - a long-time ally of Syria's Ba'ath government.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
Hafez al-Assad took control of the country in 1971 after staging a coup within his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2024
The caption identified the building as the local headquarters for the Ba'ath party and said protesters had been trying to close it down.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023
While not a terrorist, she said, he worked for a time in Iraq for the Ba’ath Party, best known for its reviled leader, Saddam Hussein.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
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