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 ...

President Noureddine al Atassi and Baath Party Boss Salah Jadid. What had happened, it seems, was not a coup, but merely a particularly violent debate among Syria’s leaders. The argument had its ...

The coup grew out of a split between the party’s leftist moderates, led by Hafez, and a powerful, pro-Peking group of officers led by General Salah Jadid. Where Hafez sought closer ties with ...

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 ...