The term “Baathist” is as malleable as it is incendiary, and the quandary it represents has underlined the growing dispute over the credibility of Iraq’s parliamentary elections.

After much delay and debate, Iraq’s Governing Council unveiled a set of guidelines Sunday for purging the country of former high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.Ahmad Chalabi ...

Tearing down the ‘Baathist web’ As the coalition forces quickly discovered, a strong and dedicated internal security organization exists in Iraq to ensure Saddam Hussein’s brutal grip on the ...

IT GOES without saying that President Bush invaded Iraq knowing almost nothing about the nation and society he would soon own. Do you recall Bush saying anything about the challenge, for example ...

In video, former Baathist police chief calmly describes involvement in bombing He says $10,000 was paid to man who got suicide bomb vehicle through security Bombing was one of five on Wednesday ...

BAATHISM IS A PRODUCT of the European 1930s. The doctrine’s founders were Syrian students who attended the Sorbonne in the ’20s and ’30s, took their readings seriously, and came away with ...

Former Baathist officers recall friends who suddenly stopped drinking, started praying and embraced the deeply conservative form of Islam known as Salafism in the years preceding the U.S. invasion.

In 2007, Douri was named as the head of a coalition of insurgent groups with his Naqshabandiyah Order - a Sufi grouping of ex-Baathist soldiers and their supporters - at its head.

For 10 years, members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist party - including many of the dead dictator's top generals - have hidden in the shadows of Iraq, persecuted by government in Baghdad and plotting ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Deadly Blasts Strike Baghdad, as Fugitive Saddam-Era Baathist Captured Twelve people killed, dozens wounded, in explosions, while Abdel Baqi al-Sadun, once sought by U.S., is arrested Associated Press ...