Topic: Ba'ath Party

Bombs in Iraq market kill 10, wound dozens

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in a market in Iraq's southern oil city of Basra Thursday, killing at least ten people and wounding dozens, security sources said.Basra, 420 km (240 miles) southeast of Baghdad, is the largest city in ...

Provincial autonomy risks sectarian rift in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Moves by some of Iraq's mainly Sunni Muslim provinces toward increased autonomy threaten to heighten sectarian tensions and put pressure on Iraq's already frail central government as U.S. troops depart at the end of the year.Just ...

Grenades hit Baath Party building in Damascus: report

AMMAN (Reuters) - At least two rocket-propelled grenades hit a main ruling Baath Party building in Damascus Sunday, residents said, in the first insurgent attack reported inside the Syrian capital since an eight-month uprising began against President Bashar al-Assad."Security police blocked off ...

Grenades hit Baath Party building in Damascus: residents

AMMAN (Reuters) - At least two rocket-propelled grenades hit a main ruling Baath Party building in Damascus Sunday, residents said, in the first insurgent attack reported inside the Syrian capital since an eight-month uprising began against President Bashar al-Assad.(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub ...

U.S. pullout gives al Qaeda space in north, west Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda and its affiliates have been given an opening to revive operations in former strongholds by the U.S. pullout from Iraq's northern and western provinces, a senior Iraqi official said.Nearly nine years after the U.S ...

Maliki says Baathists will never take power again.

Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki, says that the Saddam Hussein's Baath party will find no security vacuum to exploit after U.S. forces leave. Deborah...
Syria may be heading for a bloodbath, as weeks-long protests against the government of President Bashar al-Assad show no sign of abating in spite...
MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP / Getty Images. Afghan riot police deploy to confront demonstrators after Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Koran...

Post Primer: Unrest in Syria

News reports indicate that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to address the nation in the next two days. It will be his first speech...
Angry protestors torched a police station and the office of the ruling Syrian party Saturday and snipers killed two people as violence continued...