Iraqi insurgents: the Baath’s surviving foreign missions


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Issue 852 - 02 May 2009 | 7 minute read

When Saddam Hussein’s regime fell in 2003, a sizeable portion of the Arab Socialist Baath Party leadership fled to Syria, Jordan and other regional states. Jihadist fighters have travelled to Iraq from Arabian Peninsula sites such as Saudi Arabia or Yemen, or repressive Arab states such as

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