Remembering the 1966 Syrian coup d'état
February 21, 2021 at 9:00 am In late February 1966, a faction of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Syria ousted the old leadership in a coup. The new leadership of young socialist Baathists included Hafez Al-Assad, who would eventually rise to power in the so-called corrective revolution of 1970. What: Overthrow of the government of the Syrian Arab Republic Where: Syria Background Towards the end of 1965, Syrian politics was characterised by two distinct factions of the Baath Party. One was m...
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