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- proper noun Abbreviated name for the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a
secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Mid-East, most prominentlyIraq andSyria .
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Examples
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The name Ba'ath was used in order to gain political legitimacy for a regime, which has always been a military dictatorship, devoid of any popular support among the Sunni majority.
Dr. Josef Olmert: The Ba'ath Party and the New Syrian Constitution Dr. Josef Olmert 2012
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Syrian state media say President Assad issued a decree Thursday authorizing political parties other than the Ba'ath - the Assad-family dominated party that has ruled the country with an iron fist for decades.
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The move would be a departure from Syria's single-party system that has been dominated for decades by the Assad family's Ba'ath party.
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In recent times, the communal frictions were also manifested when members of the community rose to political prominence in the ruling Ba'ath party and in the armed forces.
Dr. Josef Olmert: Bashar Assad, the Alawite Community and the Future Dr. Josef Olmert 2011
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The move would be a departure from Syria's single-party system that has been dominated for decades by the Assad family's Ba'ath party.
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Syrian state media say President Assad issued a decree Thursday authorizing political parties other than the Ba'ath - the Assad-family dominated party that has ruled the country with an iron fist for decades.
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They have learned the lessons of Iraq, when the US got rid of all prominent officials who had been members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party and dissolved the Iraqi army and security forces.
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These two towns have very little in common, but for their strong opposition to the murderous dictatorship of the Ba'ath party and the Alawite community led by the Assad family.
Dr. Josef Olmert: How Assad Is Losing Dr. Josef Olmert 2012
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Hama, known as a conservative stronghold of the country's Sunni Muslim majority, has a special resonance in Syria as the scene of a notorious massacre in 1982 when the Ba'ath regime crushed an Islamist uprising that challenged the rule of the president's father, Hafez al-Assad.
Syria: 100 die in crackdown as Assad sends in his tanks 2011
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Without some kind of reconciliation process, the country could break apart, as in Iraq when members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party joined the insurgency, argues Juliane von Mittelstaedt in Der Spiegel.
Toni Johnson: Libya's Nervous Changing of the Guard Toni Johnson 2011
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