The Syrian Regional Branch's activities were indefinitely suspended on 11 December 2024 and its assets transferred to the transitional government, de facto dissolving the party.

[9][10] Although he died in the year 2000, Hafez al-Assad continued to be named as the official Secretary General of the National Command.

[13] Abdullah al-Ahmar served as the Assistant Secretary General of the National Command, a post he has held since 1971 until 2018.

Key Marxist programmes such as worker's control of economic production and collectivizing of agricultural lands were adopted.

[16] The party is organized along Leninist lines, a policy stemming back to Aflaq and Bitar's leadership before the split.

A seat in National Command has become a sinecure, an honorary post given to Syrian politicians as they retire from active political life.

Instead, he appointed Vice President for Party Affairs Zuhayr Masharqa or Abd al-Halim Khaddam to represent him at National Command meetings.

خندق الثوار واحد أو يقال الظلم زال صامد يا بعـث صامد أنت في ساح النضال وحد الأحـرار هيا وحد الشعب العظـيم وامض يا بعث قوياً للغد الحر الكريم

يا شباب العرب هيا وانطلق يا موكبي وارفع الصوت قوياً عاش بعث العـرب ya šabāba-l'arbi hayyā wanṭaliq yā mawkibī warfa'i-ṣṣawta qawiyān 'aša Ba'athu-l'arabi ya šabāba-l'arbi hayyā wanṭaliq yā mawkibī warfa'i-ṣṣawta qawiyān 'aša Ba'athu-l'arabi

ya šabāba-l'arbi hayyā wanṭaliq yā mawkibī warfa'i-ṣṣawta qawiyān 'aša Ba'athu-l'arabi

ya šabāba-l'arbi hayyā wanṭaliq yā mawkibī warfa'i-ṣṣawta qawiyān 'aša Ba'athu-l'arabi Arab youth, raise and march to fight your enemies, Raise your voice: "Long live the Arab Ba'ath!"

We are farmers, workers and persistent youth, We are soldiers, we are the voice of labourers, We came from roots of this land and pain from hearts, We weren't misers in giving sacrifice nobly.

[30] During the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the party publicly denounced U.S. involvement in the organization of Iraqi dissidents in exile.

[31] After the fall of Saddam's administration, confusion arose as to whether the de-Ba'athification law also applied to the party.

[32] In 2008, Radhi requested that the party be allowed to function inside Iraq and join the process of reconciliation.

[33] In 2018 Radhi, based in London, visited Baghdad and met President Fuad Masum during reconciliation talks.

Despite its small size, the branch is able through its leader, Fuad Dabbour, to get a decent footprint in Jordanian media.

During the Lebanese Civil War, the party had an armed militia called the Assad Battalion.

[44] Wael Nader al-Halqi, the Prime Minister of Syria, praised the Lebanon Regional Branch leadership, stating that they supported the Syrian leadership and stayed loyal to the Assads despite the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and in times of conspiracies and attacks.

[57] It was reported in 2010 that Ahmad Alahmad, the Secretary General of the Arab Socialist Movement, was a member of the Sudanese regional leadership.

[58] The party slogan "Unity, Freedom, Socialism" was enshrined in the Constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic.

[11] Due to the party's focus on intellectuals and affluent elites, it failed to gain support from the economically weaker sections such as the urban workers and rural farmers.

As a result, its support base was vastly limited to affluent merchant classes of Damascus and the Alawite clans in the North-Western coast.

[19] As of 1987, the Syrian Regional Command comprised the three vice presidents of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, the parliamentary speaker, the Aleppo and Hama party secretaries as well as the heads of the party bureaus for trade unions, economy and higher education.

The congress created a new institution, the Central Committee, to act as an intermediary body between the Regional Command and local branches.

Most Ba'athists in Tunisia support the Iraqi faction as members of the Ba'ath Movement or the more leftist and radical the Party of the Arab and Democratic Vanguard.

Only a small number of militants headed by Mohamed Salah Hermassi (a member of the Damascus-based National Command) are historically linked to Damascus.

[73] Abdullah al-Ahmar led a central party delegation to the 4th Regional Congress of the Yemenite Ba'ath in 2006.

[33] In November 2010, one of the key leaders of the party in Yemen, Ali Ahmad Nasser al-Dhahab, died.

[75][76] In March 2013, Linda Mohammed, the head of the region's Women section, left the party in protest at the Yemenite leadership's continued support for Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Ba'ath.