Al-Baʻth

'''''Al-Ba'ath''''' () was an Arabic language newspaper published by the Ba'ath Party in Syria and other Arab countries and territories, including Lebanon and Palestine.

==History== ''Al-Ba'ath'' was founded in 1948 (according to other sources, in 1946), but the newspaper applied for a publishing license as early as 1943, as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Syria. The government's main condition at the time was that the newspaper not be named after the party (which ultimately did not happen). At the time of its founding, Michel Aflaq became the newspaper's political director, and Salah ad-Din al-Bitar became the executive director. In 1962, the newspaper was ordered closed, but the Ba'athists failed to be suppressed - the party's national command continued and intensified its attacks on the government, clearly demonstrating its hostility towards it.