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Syrians vote in election certain to give Assad new mandate

Syrians in government-held areas of the war-torn country headed to polling stations early Wednesday to vote in a presidential election guaranteed to give President Bashar Assad a fourth seven-year term. The vote is the second presidential election since the country's conflict began 10 years...

Scion of a dynasty, Assad rules over shattered Syria

Bashar al-Assad, once seen as a reformer but viewed by his many foes as a tyrant after a decade of war and repression, looks set to extend his family's dynastic rule of Syria further with an election on Wednesday. Branded "an animal" by the United States for gassing his people and a...

Syria's election holds few surprises after years of war

Campaign posters for Bashar al-Assad line the streets of Damascus, alongside those for two obscure rivals, but no one really doubts that Wednesday's election will extend his presidency despite 10 years of war that has left Syria in ruins. Ruled by his family for five decades, Syria is now...

'Assad takes from Syrians, gives resources to Iran, Russia'

Syria’s economic trouble is not caused by sanctions but due to the Bashar Assad regime using the country’s resources to attack its own people and giving resources over to its allies, namely Iran and Russia, Abdurrahman Mustafa, head of the Syrian Interim Government, stated. Mustafa...