Syria party
Ba'ath Party (Syria)
حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكيPan-Arab nationalist party that ruled Syria under the Assad dynasty from 1970 to its dissolution following the December 2024 regime change.
- Founded
- 1947
- Dissolved
- 2024
- Founders
- Michel Aflaq; Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Position — compass as of 2026-06-10
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Associated legislation
Bills this party introduced, championed, or whose passage / blocking it's publicly associated with. Status indicates the bill's parliamentary outcome. All Syria bills →
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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Ba'ath Party dissolved by transitional authority
The Syrian Regional Branch of the Ba'ath Party was formally dissolved by the HTS-led transitional government in January 2025 as part of broader de-Baathification, ending the Ba'ath's six-decade tenure as Syria's ruling party.
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Syrian uprising begins
The Syrian uprising began on 2011-03-15 with protests in Deraa after Assad regime security forces tortured children who had spray-painted anti-regime graffiti. Assad's violent response escalated the protests into a civil war that lasted 13 years and killed an estimated 500,000+ Syrians.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2024-09-30 Syrian Arab Republic statement to the 79th UN General Assembly (FM Bassam Sabbagh), 30 Sep 2024 — Assad regime's final UNGA address before the December 2024 fall (English translation of Arabic original)
Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, As this session of the General Assembly is taking place, tensions internationally have reached a boiling point, and efforts to maintain international peace and security are…
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Speech Arabic 2024-09-30 Syria — Assad-regime LAST UN GA Speech (FM Bassam Sabbagh, 30 Sep 2024, ~2 months before Dec 2024 fall)
كلمة بسام صباغ وزير الخارجية والمغتربين رئيس وفد الجمهورية العربية السورية إلى الدورة التاسعة والسبعين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — 30 أيلول 2024 [… …] لقد شهدت بلادي سورية، على مدى أكثر من عقدٍ مضى، معاناةً لا مثيل…
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Speech Arabic 2023-09-26 Bassam Sabbagh (Syria) at UN GA 78 — last pre-Oct-7 Assad-era UN speech: anti-coercive-measures + Golan + Russia alignment
كلمة السفير بسام صباغ رئيس وفد الجمهورية العربية السورية إلى الدورة الثامنة والسبعين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — الثلاثاء 26/9/2023 السيد دينيس فرانسيس رئيسُ الجمعيةِ العامة، […] يشهدُ عالمنا اليوم تحولاتٍ هامة،…
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English 1947-01-01 Constitution of the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party (1947) — Fundamental, General and Economic Principles
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. First Principle — Unity and Liberty: The Arabs are One Nation, which has its natural right to live under One State. The Arab Homeland is an indivisible political and economic entity. Second…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Syrian Regional Branch founded 1947
- dissolved_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Dissolved by HTS-led transitional authority January 2025
- legal_status en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Dissolved as part of de-Baathification under transitional authority
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Ba'ath Party (Syria) [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/baath-sy
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ba'ath Party (Syria)." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/baath-sy.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-baath-sy,
title = {{Ba'ath Party (Syria)}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/baath-sy},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.