More than four years after military forces toppled Saddam Hussein's Baathist government, Iraq is wrestling with reintegrating former members of his party, a policy trumpeted by American leaders ...

The term “Baathist” is as malleable as it is incendiary, and the quandary it represents has underlined the growing dispute over the credibility of Iraq’s parliamentary elections.

NEW YORK, November 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The Iraqi government revealed a plan on November 7 that would allow the majority of former Ba'ath Party members to return to their former positions, in the ...

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When this was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Qazi Faisal Mohammed was a member of the president’s Baath Party, one of the deposed leader’s primary sources of power. Today, Mohammed is patrolling the ...

Iran Has Influence in — but Not Control over — Iraq’s Government Allawi, a former Baathist and fierce enemy of Iran, was always unacceptable to Tehran as Iraqi Prime Minister.

This publication is now archived. What is the next step in the creation of the Iraqi government?On April 6, the 275 members of the transitional National Assembly elected the nation’s new ...

Up to 25 officials are under arrest at the Iraqi Interior Ministry, some accused of plotting a coup and trying to bring back the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi government sources said.

A bill passed the Iraqi Parliament on Saturday that would allow some former officials of Saddam Hussein's Baathist Party to regain jobs they held before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The arrests of more than 20 security officials on accusations of trying to revive Saddam Hussein's banned political party show how that the Shiite-led government believes that supporters of the ...