Following the break-up of the UAR, the Baʿth Party was reconstituted. However, during the UAR, military activists had established the Military Committee to take control of the Baʿth Party from civilian hands. In the meantime, in Iraq, the local Baath Party branch had taken power by orchestrating and leading the Ramadan Revolution, only to lose power a couple of months later. The Military Committee, with Aflaq's consent, took power in Syria in the 8th of March Revolution of 1963.