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Ba'ath party , Arab political party, in Syria and in Iraq. Its main ideological objectives are secularism, socialism, and pan-Arab unionism. Founded in Damascus in 1941 and reformed, with the name Ba'ath, in the early 1950s, it rapidly achieved political power in Syria. In 1958—with one of its founders, Salah al-Din Bitar, as foreign minister—it led Syria into the ill-fated United Arab Republic (UAR) with Egypt. The Ba'athists, like most other Syrians, quickly came to resent Egyptian domination, and the Ba'athist members of the union government resigned in Dec., 1959. Syria withdrew... Read more

Ba'th Party
or Baath Party Arab political party that advocates formation of a single Arab socialist state. It was...al-Din al-Bitar in 1943 and in 1953 merged with the Syrian Socialist Party to form the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. It espoused nonalignment... Read more

Syrian Arab Republic
...However, in 1963, with the Baath Party coup, all independent papers...since the ascension of the Baath Socialist Party to power, the press has taken...founded 1946; Arabic; organ of the Baath Socialist Party; Gen. Dir. and Chief Ed. Turki... Read more

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