Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Re-elected
Bashar al-Assad has won Syria's presidential election by a landslide, according to officials.
Assad has gained 88.7% of support in the first vote with multiple candidates held in the country for decades.
Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, the other two candidates that stood for election, won 4.3 and 3.2 percent respectively, according to Al Jazeera English.
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Assad declared landslide victor in wartime Syrian election
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has secured a landslide victory in a wartime election that was condemned as a sham by his opponents but demonstrated his tenacious hold on power after three years of brutal civil war.
What went wrong in the Middle East?
The question is not whether the elections in Egypt and Syria are democratic or not. They are clearly not. But when did democracy visit these countries anyway? The closest Arab countries in the Middle East have come to democracy is in Iraq and that is only because the old mold was broken by the U.S. invasion.
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Syrians Vote for President
Syrians are voting in a presidential election on Tuesday, with incumbent Bashar al-Assad in pole position to win a third term.
The opposition has labeled the vote as a "farce", manipulated by the ruling party. Polling stations have only been opened in the government-controlled areas, while people in the rebel-held regions will not be able to have their say, the BBC reports.
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Syria regime stages controversial wartime president vote
Syrians voted as fighting raged June 3 in a presidential election in which Bashar al-Assad is looking to tighten his grip as his forces battle rebels in a devastating three-year war.
Assad is facing two little-known challengers and is expected to win, despite a massive rebellion and a war which the U.N. has warned is likely to drag on even longer as a result of the vote.
Assad eyes crushing win in controversial Syria vote
Voting offices opened June 3 in Syrian regime-held areas for a presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is expected to win, and that has been slammed as a "farce" by the opposition.
Car bomb kills 10 people in Syria's Homs: state media
A car bomb killed at least 10 people in a Syrian government-held area of the central province of Homs on Monday, state media said, the eve of an election expected to be won easily by President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian television said the explosion caused major damage in nearby houses.
Syrian Govt Air Attacks in Aleppo 'Killed 1963 People' in 2014
Almost 2000 people lost their lives in air attacks in Aleppo committed by government forces in 2014, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) argues.
As many as 283 woman and 567 children are included in the death toll, the organization reports as quoted by Al Jazeera.
Iran says Syria vote will boost legitimacy of ally Assad
Iran said Friday that next week's presidential election in Syria, branded a farce by Western governments, will boost the legitimacy of its ally Bashar al-Assad.
"God willing, the elections in Syria will be carried out without a hitch," said Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Five months of air raids on Syria's Aleppo kill almost 2,000
Nearly 2,000 civilians, including 567 children, have been killed in a massive air offensive this year by Syrian regime forces on the northern province of Aleppo, a monitor said Friday.