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Ruling political party in Iraq and Syria. Despite public support of pan-Arab unity and its foundations 1943 as a party of Arab nationalism, its ideology has been so vague that it has fostered widely differing (and often opposing) parties in Syria and Iraq.
The Ba'ath Party was founded in Damascus, Syria, 1943 by three French-educated Syrian intellectuals, in opposition to both French rule and the older generation of Syrian Arab nationalists. Its constitution is an uncertain blend of neo-Marxist socialism and nationalism. The movement split into several factions after 1958 and again in 1966. In Iraq, the Ba'ath Party took control briefly in 1963 and again from 1968 although its support there has always been limited. The rise of Saddam Hussein was not so much due to the popularity of the Ba'ath Party itself as the exploitation and manipulation of an existing ideology by Hussein for his own purposes.