Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. From 1970 un
Neo-Ba'athist military officers celebrating the downfall of the Second Syrian Republic after seizing power from its last democratically elected president Nazim al-Qudsi in 1963.
Amin al-Hafiz (left), an important political figure and president of Syria in 1963–66, carried out socialist reforms and reoriented the country towards the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
General Salah Jadid, a key figure in planning the 1966 coup. Though holding no formal position, he stayed in the shadows and was Syria’s de facto leader until 1970.
Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000, built a strong military dictatorship.
The Axis of Resistance or Resistance Front is an informal Iran-led military coalition that operates across West Asia. It currently unites a variety of armed groups allied with Iran and committed prima
Ba'athist Syria
…Assad family, and is therefore commonly referred to as the Assad regime. Ba'athist Syria was also, until its downfall, the only state member of the "Axis of Resistance" beside Iran. The regime emerged in 1963 following a coup d'état led by Alawite Ba'athist military officers. Another coup in 1966 led to Salah Jadid…
Forum for Resistance meeting in Lebanon, 2009
Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian autocrat of the Ba'ath Party
Hezbollah soldiers in a drill