It is rare to hear of a regime in our time that has triumphed and treated its followers and affiliates with nobility and tolerance, as we have seen with Ahmad al-Sharaa in Syria. In Iraq, the ...

Ba’ath Party members Michel Aflaq (left) and Salah Jadid (right) in 1963, the latter was a senior figure in planning the coup d'etat. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. By signing up, you confirm that ...

Other members included Hafez al-Assad, Salah Jadid, Ahmad al-Mir Abd al-Karim al-Jundi. Hafez al-Assad and Jadid turned against Umran and jailed him in the notorious Mezzeh prison until the Middle ...