Algeria
Islam is the predominant religion in Algeria, with its adherents, mostly Sunnis, accounting for 99% of the population according to a 2012 CIA World Factbook estimate, and 97.9% according to Pew Research in 2010. There are about 150,000 Ibadis in the M'zab Valley in the region of Ghardaia.
Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)
The party branch in Algeria, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria ( "Hizb Al-Ba'ath Al-'Arabi Al-Ishtiraki fi Al-Jaza'ir"; French: "Parti Baath arabe socialiste d'Algérie"), is led by Ahmed Choutri (secretary of the Regional Command). The party is banned and Choutri was forced to flee to Iraq during the 1990s because of governmental repression against the Algerian Ba'ath movement. The party sympathises with the Iraqi ba'athist insurgency and supports Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, leader of the Iraqi branch. Following his return to Algeria in 2003, Choutri wrote "The Baathist Faith of President Saddam".