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    Salah al-Din al-Bitar (Arabic: صلاح الدين البيطار, romanized: Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Bīṭār;‎ 1 January 1912 – 21 July 1980) was a Syrian politician who co-founded...
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    1963, Atassi was designated as the Minister of the Interior in Salah al-Din al-Bitar's third government. This government served from August 4, 1963, until...
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    Socialist Ba'ath Party, led by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, in the 1950s through an associate of Akram al-Hawrani. Even so, Jadid remained close to...
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    political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār, and associates of Zakī al-ʾArsūzī. The party espoused Baʿathism (from Arabic...
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    Hussein was born in al-Awja, a small village near Tikrit, to Hussein Abd Al-Majid and Subha Tulfah Al-Mussallat. They were both from the Al-Bu Nasir tribe...
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    Third Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from May to October 1964. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This...
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  • Salah Al-Mukhtar (Arabic: صلاح المختار; born 1944 in Baghdad) is the foremost resisting Ba'athist leader of Iraq. He was Deputy General Secretary of the...
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    Second Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from May to August 1963. The Cabinet of Syria was led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This...
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    First Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from March to May 1963. The Cabinet of Syria was led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This...
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    Fourth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from May to October 1964. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This...
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  • Thumbnail for Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
    brought al-Bakr and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in Iraq. Saddam and Salah Omar al-Ali led the coup on the ground, but it was al-Bakr who...
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    Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from January to February 1966. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar. This...
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    (per the Iraqi-led Ba'ath Party), Zaki al-Arsuzi (per the Syrian-led Ba'ath Party), and Salah al-Din al-Bitar. Ba'athist leaders of the modern era include...
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    consisting of al-Arsuzi, Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and not one principal founder. The Genius of Arabic in Its Tongue (published 1943) Al-Umma al-Arabiyya...
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    organisation founded on 7 April 1947 by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and followers of Zaki al-Arsuzi. The party has ruled Syria continuously since...
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    studied at the Sorbonne, where he met his future political companion Salah al-Din al-Bitar. He returned to Syria in 1932, and began his political career in...
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    Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: علي حسن مجيد التكريت, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥasan Majīd al-Tikrītī; c. 1941 – 25 January 2010), nicknamed Chemical Ali (Arabic:...
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    Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Arabic: عزة إبراهيم الدوري, romanized: Izzat Ibrāhīm ad-Dūrī; 1 July 1942 – 25 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician and army field...
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  • Thumbnail for Amin al-Hafiz
    Eastern Bloc. On 23 February 1966, al-Hafiz was overthrown by a radical Ba'athist faction headed by Chief of Staff Salah Jadid. A late warning telegram of...
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    Regional Command; Aflaq proposed Salah al-Din al-Bitar as prime minister, but Hafez and Brahim Makhous opposed Bitar's nomination. According to Seale,...
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    all but collapsed after the 1963 seizure of power; Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and their followers wanted to implement "classic" Ba'athism in...
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    Kirkuk, the group has carried out operations in Baghdad, Al Anbar, Nineveh, Diyala and Salah al-Din provinces. The Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order...
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    his views influenced Michel Aflaq who, alongside junior partner Salah al-Din al-Bitar, founded the Arab Ihya Movement in 1940 that later renamed itself...
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    Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali (Arabic: محمد يونس الأحمد), also known by his pseudonym Khadr al-Sabahi, is an Iraqi former military officer and former...
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    As-Sa'iqa (redirect from Al-Saiqa)
    struggle then in play in Syria, by Salah Jadid to counter the ambitions of Defence Minister Hafez al-Assad. When al-Assad seized power in the November...
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    York: Praeger 1965) at 180. Charif, Maher, Rihanat al-nahda fi'l-fikr al-'arabi, Damascus, Dar al-Mada, 2000 Hourani, Albert, La Pensée Arabe et l'Occident...
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    is organized along Leninist lines, a policy stemming back to Aflaq and Bitar's leadership before the split. The highest organ of the party is the Party...
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    on 16 July 1979. Six days after the resignation of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Hussein's accession to President of the Iraqi Republic, Regional...
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    of Ba'athism, a Syrian ideology conceived by Zaki al-Arsuzi, Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, but evolved into neo-Ba'athism. Clause six of the...
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  • Yusuf (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn al-Aziz ibn al-Zahir ibn Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shazy 1228–1260), Ayyubid Emir and Sultan Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980)...
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