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Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. This period began with high economic growth, but ended with the country facing severe levels of socio-political isolation and economic stagnation.
Ba‘ath Party, Pan-Arabist political party advocating the formation of a single Arab socialist nation, founded in Damascus by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din Bitar. It became the ruling party in Syria in 1963 and in Iraq in 1968. Iraq’s Ba‘ath Party, led by Saddam Hussein, was toppled in 2003 in the Iraq War.
Ba'athist leaders of the modern era include the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, former president of Syria Hafez al-Assad, and his son, the current president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. The Ba'athist ideology advocates the "enlightenment of the Arabs" as well as the renaissance of their culture, values and society.
Sep 19, 2024 · Iraq - Ba'athism, Saddam Hussein, War: The Baʿath Party came to power, to a large extent, on the waves of deep popular frustration that followed the Arab defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War. The party soon became, rhetorically, the most extreme anti-Israeli regime in the Arab world, promising to quickly conduct a successful war to wrest ...
2 days ago · Iraq - Dictatorship, Invasion, Sanctions: From the early 1970s Saddam was widely recognized as the power behind President al-Bakr, who after 1977 was little more than a figurehead. Saddam reached this position through his leadership of the internal security apparatus, a post that most senior Baʿathist figures had been too squeamish to fill.
Mar 29, 2018 · In Iraq, the Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party rose to power through a military coup in July 1968. Hussein, who played a key role in that coup, seized total control in 1979. Over time, as the collection shows, party members systematically penetrated all governmental and military institutions.
A "region" (quṭr), in Ba'athist parlance, is an Arab state, e.g., Syria, Iraq, or Lebanon. [44] Use of the term region reflected the Party's refusal to acknowledge these countries as separate nation-states. [ 44 ]
