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    Mahmoud Al-Zoubi (Arabic: محمود الزعبي, romanized: Maḥmūd az-Zuʿbī;‎ 1935 – 21 May 2000) was Prime Minister of Syria from 1 November 1987 to 7 March 2000...
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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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  • Al-Zoubi, El-Zoubi, Zoubi, or Al-Zubi, (Arabic: الزعبي) is a prominent Levantine family whose members can be found throughout the Arab world, but are most...
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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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    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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    party between hard-liners (represented by Rifaat al-Assad) and Ba'ath liberals (represented by Mahmoud al-Ayyubi) began. The Seventh Regional Congress, in...
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    Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979...
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    Anti-Government Uprising". Asharq al-Awsat. 29 August 2023. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. al-Mahmoud, Hussam (12 February 2024). "Six months...
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  • Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Nasiri al-Tikriti (or Qusai, Arabic: قصي صدام حسين; 17 May 1966 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and the...
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    Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi politician and militia commander, who served...
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    reveal his name. Two days later, Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti announced Zubeidi's death at his trial, complaining that they were...
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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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    Ḥizb al-Baʿth al-ʿArabī al-Ishtirākī [ˈħɪzb alˈbaʕθ alˈʕarabiː alɪʃtɪˈraːkiː]) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār...
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    As-Sa'iqa (redirect from Al-Saiqa)
    Hafez al-Assad. When al-Assad seized power in the November 1970 "Corrective Revolution", as-Sa'iqa was purged and its leaders replaced with al-Assad loyalists...
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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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  • (2007–2008) Osama Qasem (2008–2010) Rateb Al-Dawud (2010–2011) Jabbar Hamid (2010–2011) Hussam Al-Mawsali (2011) Mahmoud Abu Abed (2011) Osama Qasem (2011–2013)...
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    Zaki al-Arsuzi (Arabic: زكي الأرسوزي, romanized: Zakī al-Arsūzī; June 1899 – 2 July 1968) was a Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, historian...
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    Amin al-Hafiz (Arabic: أمين الحافظ, romanized: Amīn al-Ḥāfiẓ 12 November 1921 – 17 December 2009), also known as Amin Hafez, was a Syrian general, politician...
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    Syria Region (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي – قطر سوريا Ḥizb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī – Quṭr Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Regional Branch...
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  • Gaddafi in Libya. On 26 March, Saddam Hussein met Egyptian vice president Mahmoud Fawzi in Cairo and on 28th he finally met Sadat in Alexandria. Referring...
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    bloodless coup in Iraq in 1968 led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, and Abd ar-Rahman al-Dawud that ousted President Abdul Rahman Arif and...
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    as "a mix of Islamic and pan-Arab nationalistic ideas", with Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri being described as "the hidden sheikh of the Men of the Naqshbandi"...
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  • and politician Mahmoud Al-Zoubi (1935–2000), Syrian politician Musa Al-Zubi (born 1993), Jordanian professional footballer Omran al-Zoubi (1959–2018), Syrian...
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    al-Assad had fired previous prime minister Imad Khamis amid a worsening economic crisis. Arnous was born in the village of Al-Tah in the Ma'arrat al-Nu'man...
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  • Thumbnail for Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
    al-Ba‘th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī fī al-'Irāq), officially the Iraqi Regional Branch, is an Iraqi Ba'athist political party founded in 1951 by Fuad al-Rikabi...
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    Abdul Qadir Tlass (Arabic: مصطفى عبد القادر طلاس, romanized: Musṭafā ʿAbd al-Qādir Ṭalās; 11 May 1932 – 27 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer...
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  • Thumbnail for Fedayeen Saddam
    fighters tend to come from Saddam's hometown of Tikrit or are recruited from his al-Bu Nasir tribe. Uday used the Fedayeen for personal reasons such as smuggling...
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    leadership's continued support for Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Ba'ath. Regional Secretaries Unknown Mahmoud Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Hamid (?–?) Quasim Salaam...
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  • Mahmoud al-Ayyubi (Arabic: محمود الأيوبي, romanized: Maḥmūd al-Ayyūbī;‎ 1932 – 11 October 2013) was a syrian politician who served as the Vice President...
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    مصرع شقيقي عدنان أثارها سلو..." [Watban's wife Al-Tikriti, sister of "the president's wife," talks to Al-Hayat about the family's grievances. Ilham Khairallah...
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