“Baath spokesman denies alliance with Islamic State Khodair al-Morshedi, the official spokesman for the Iraqi Baath Party and the secretary-general of the Islamic National Front of Iraq, comprising various armed factions, described the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, as ‘an extreme, terrorist movement.’”
Source: Baath spokesman denies alliance with Islamic State – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East