New Ba'athist regional command in Syria

A new regional leadership of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party was selected on Monday during a plenary meeting of the Party's central committee. 'Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Monday.

This appointing of new regional command discord with the Regulatory procedures where The Regional Congress, which combined all the branches, was set up to elect the Regional Command as the core of the Party leadership and top decision-making mechanism.

Ba'atha party is political party founded in Syria by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and associates of Zaki al-Arsuzi. The party espoused Ba'athism   which is an ideology mixing Arab nationalist, pan-Arabism, Arab socialist and anti-imperialist interests. Ba'athism calls for unification of the Arab world into a single state. Its motto, "Unity, Liberty, Socialism", refers to Arab unity, and freedom from non-Arab control and interference.

The party was founded by the merger of the Arab Ba'ath Movement, led by Aflaq and al-Bitar, and the Arab Ba'ath, led by al-Arsuzi, on 7 April 1947 as the Arab Ba'ath Party.

 Assad's forces was launched a major offensive9  days ago against rebels in Homs, center of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean.

The 27-month-long conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives, the Observatory announced Wednesday. Meanwhile, Assad’s forces, backed by militants from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, have made creeping gains in recent months.