Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as the president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations that the polls were neither free nor fair. The controversial vote extending Assad’s stranglehold on power was the second since the start of a decade-long civil conflict that has killed more than 388,000 people, displaced millions and battered the …
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May 28, 2021