BAGHDAD, May 11 -- Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, announced today that Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which dominated the country for more than three decades through ...

The Iraqi Baath party was one of the tools by which Saddam Hussein maintained a tight grip on his country. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, to give it its full name, was founded in Syria in the 1940s ...

Iraqi fugitives. Saddam Hussein's former interior minister and a top member of his Baath party (search) are now in the coalition's custody, U.S. Central Command said Wednesday. Al Hadi ...

The panel targets those with alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party. Commission leaders deny being muzzled and say their work is far from finished. We turn, now, to Iraq ...

A cache of Baath Party records discovered in a party ... Some of the memos also provide a glimpse into how Iraqi society was suppressed for so long. NPR's Scott Simon reports.

For a while last week it seemed impossible to tell who was up and who was down in Iraq. Perhaps the principals themselves were not sure. Two weeks ago, the Baath Party (TIME, Nov. 22) seemed ...

The northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell to IS in early June, and soon after, rumours emerged that the group were in an alliance with the Sunni Muslim Baath party. There was speculation that the ...

Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite politician who led the push six years ago to purge Iraq of the Baath party, said al-Maliki is also suspicious of bringing back some of the Sunni old guard, which Chalabi ...

where they discovered a trove of official records in a waterlogged basement that provided an inside look at the Baath Party.

The Baath party, which ruled Iraq until the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, has forged an unlikely alliance with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The party was secular, but in the 1990s late ...