Remembering the 1966 Syrian coup d'état
February 21, 2021 at 9:00 am In late February 1966, a faction of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria ousted the old leadership in a coup. The new leadership of young socialist Ba'athists 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 Ba'ath Party. One was made up of the National Command, the ruling elite of the Syrian branch of the party. The other con...
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