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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

After passing the Syrian Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act, the U.S. Congress is raising the heat on the Syrian Baath dictatorship with its proposed bipartisan resolution expressing ...

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 ...

ISIS Forces That Now Control Ramadi Are Ex-Baathist Saddam Loyalists . Few in Washington appear to grasp that the fighters who led the takeover of Ramadi are an amalgam of virtually every Sunni ...

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 ...

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 ...

When this was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Qazi Faisal Mohammed was a member of the president’s Baath Party, one of the deposed leader’s primary sources of power. Today, Mohammed is patrolling the ...