Damascus (AFP) – Maher Semsmieh turned in his rifle on Thursday at an office of Syria's Baath party, more than 60 years after its oppressive rule in Syria began, and days after it ended.

Portraits of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his late father Hafez al-Assad hang outside Baath party offices in Damascus as a rebel fighter stands guard — LOUAI BESHARA Maher Semsmieh ...

This intra-Baath rivalry turned into severe, and occasionally violent, confrontations between the party in the two countries until the end of Baath rule in Iraq in 2003, with the exception of a ...

Maher Semsmieh turned in his rifle on Thursday at an office of Syria's Baath party, more than 60 years after its oppressive rule in Syria began, and days after it ended. "We are no longer Baathists," ...

Syria's Baath party announced Wednesday it was suspending work indefinitely, days after rebels ousted president Bashar al-Assad from power, ending more than half a century of the family and party ...

A portrait of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad at the Baath party offices in Damascus — LOUAI BESHARA The Baath party, once a powerful symbol of Arab nationalism, has become a fading relic of ...

Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa The Baath Party of Syria's deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad said it has suspended its work indefinitely on Wednesday, a few days after a rebel ...

For more than half a century, Syria's Baath party under the Assad dynasty was a feared instrument of repression, ruthlessly ruling over the country until yesterday when the government collapsed under ...

The Baath party, once a powerful symbol of Arab nationalism, has become a fading relic of authoritarian rule in the Middle East after the fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, analysts told AFP on Sunday.