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But the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Hussein and his Baathist rule opened up Iraq — with its majority Shiite population — to large-scale Iranian presence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Several members of its senior leadership had been high-level military and intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime; they combined the structural prowess of a police state with the cosmic certainty of radical jihadism.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

After Israel’s defeat of its Arab neighbors in 1967 and the Baathist coup in Iraq a year later, Iraq became inhospitable to its dwindling Jewish population.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017

The U.S. and Britain made mistakes in conducting the war, not least failing to anticipate that the Baathist regime intended to fight a guerrilla insurgency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2016

It was the first independent publication in Baathist Syria.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2015