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Assad re-elected Syrian President with '95% of votes'

May 28 2021
Syria
Source: 
RTE.ie

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected with 95.1% of the votes cast, the parliamentary speaker has announced, following an election criticised by the opposition and Western nations.

The two other presidential candidates, former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmud Merhi, a member of the so-called "tolerated opposition", received 1.5% and 3.3% of the vote respectively, according to the official results of yesterday's election.

Syrian Election Shows The Extent Of Assad's Power

May 27 2021
Syria
Source: 
NPR

 

It was a decision as symbolic as the Syrian presidential election itself.

On Wednesday morning, Syrians woke to local television footage of President Bashar Assad and the first lady, Asma Assad, casting their ballots. The pair were not in a loyalist stronghold but in Douma, the satellite town of Damascus whose residents proved some of the staunchest opponents to Syria's authoritarian regime.

Muere canciller sirio, Walid Mouallem, un incondicional de al-Asad

Nov 16 2020
Syria
Source: 
Yahoo noticias
El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Siria, Walid Mouallem, falleció este lunes a los 79 años de edad, tras haber sido uno de los pilares del gobierno de Bashar Al Asad y haber conservado su ministerio durante toda la guerra.
 
Sancionado por Estados Unidos desde el inicio del conflicto en 2011, Walid Mouallem apoyó indefectiblemente al presidente sirio Bashar Al Asad y era conocido por sus críticas sarcásticas y virulentas contra los países occidentales en el momento de defender las posiciones de su país.
 

Cientos de sirios participaron en las elecciones parlamentarias

Jul 19 2020
Syria
Source: 
FRANCE 24

Con mascarillas como medida de sanitaria para evitar la propagación del coronavirus, el presidente sirio Bashar al-Ásad y el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Walid Muallem, emitieron sus votos este domingo 19 de julio, en el marco de los comicios parlamentarios que habían sido pospuestos dos veces debido a la pandemia.

Hay 1.656 candidatos en la puja por los 250 escaños del Parlamento de Siria. Unidad Nacional, la coalición política en la que está incluida el partido gobernante, partió como favorita para obtener la mayoría de las curules.

Assad postpones Syria’s parliamentary elections for 2nd time over coronavirus

May 07 2020
Syria
Source: 
RT and SANA

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday issued a decree delaying the elections of the People’s Assembly for the third legislative term until July 19, due to precautionary measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

On March 14, Assad had already ordered to delay the elections until May 20. The polls, which were initially supposed to happen on April 13 across government-run areas, are the third since the start of a conflict in the country nine years ago.

La recuperación de las relaciones con Siria en las elecciones presidenciales de Túnez de 2019

Sep 11 2019
Syria
Tunisia
Source: 
Al-Mayadeen

Tras finalizar los debates de los candidatos presidenciales tunecinos, que, según observadores, no contribuyeron a la resolución de las decisiones de los votantes tunecinos, los temas de apoyar el Ejército, seguridad nacional, terrorismo y crisis económica fueron las principales prioridades de los candidatos, con continuos debates y campañas. Mientras tanto, el candidato Mohamed Lazhar Akremi, asesor político del primer ministro tunecino, pidió un retorno total a las relaciones con Siria.

Mueren 19 personas por explosión de coche bomba en norte de Siria, según ONG

Jun 03 2019
Syria
Source: 
eldiario.es
Al menos 19 personas murieron hoy, de ellas 14 civiles y cuatro menores, por la explosión de un coche bomba junto a una mezquita en la ciudad de Azaz, en el noroeste de Siria y fronteriza con Turquía, informó el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos.
 
La organización no gubernamental indicó en un comunicado que sobre cinco de los muertos no se ha podido comprobar su identidad hasta el momento por lo que se desconoce si son civiles o combatientes de alguna facción armada que opera en la zona, situada en la provincia noroccidental de Alepo.
 

Turkey, Russia face conflicts over Syria’s push into Idlib

Jun 01 2019
Syria
Turkey
Source: 
Concord Monitor
Ankara and Moscow are again facing an escalation of violence in Syria’s last rebel-held territory, a development that puts their cooperation to the test even as they support opposing sides in the eight-year war that has devastated Syria.
 
An all-out offensive by Syrian government forces to capture Idlib in northwestern Syria from insurgents could unleash an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, for the area is home to 3 million people.
 

Damascus rejects Arab Summit’s criticism of Iran’s presence in Syria

May 31 2019
Iran
Syria
Source: 
AMN Al-Masdar NEWS
The government in Damascus has rejected the final statement of the Arab emergency summit held in Saudi Arabia, which criticizes what it called “Iranian intervention” into Syrian affairs, AP reports.
 
Damascus said the statement was an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
 

Syrian NGOs call on international community to act on Idlib

May 31 2019
Syria
Source: 
DAILY SABAH
A group of Syrian civil society organizations came together in Istanbul yesterday, calling on the international community to take action to stop regime attacks in the northwestern province of Idlib. A joint press conference called "Imminent Humanitarian Disaster in NW Syria: Act for Idlib" was held yesterday by representatives of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets), the Syrian NGO Alliance (SNA) and the Idlib Health Directorate in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul.

18% of Syrians Married Before 19 in Lebanon

May 29 2019
Lebanon
Syria
Source: 
albawaba
A recent study of early marriage among Syrian refugees in south Lebanon has found that around 18 percent of women in those communities are married by the age of 19.
 
In the sample of 1,625 adolescent girls and 893 adult women surveyed, about 14 percent were married before the age of 18, researchers found.
 
While the majority of those had married at the age of 16 or above, researchers spoke to some girls who had married as young as 11, and one girl who had been married, divorced and remarried by the age of 15.
 

Turkey Says Nearly 330,000 Syrians Returned Home

May 28 2019
Syria
Turkey
Source: 
ASHARQ AL-AWSAT
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said 329,000 Syrians have returned from Turkey since the end of the operations carried out by Turkey and pro-Syrian factions, including the Free Syrian Army, Turkey’s interior minister said Sunday.
 
Soylu said those Syrians returned to their homeland thanks to the peace reached in Afrin, Azaz, Jarablus, and al-Bab where the Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield operations were carried out.
 

Civilian Toll Mounts as Syria Regime Pounds Militant Bastion

May 28 2019
Syria
Source: 
ASHARQ AL-AWSAT
Another wave of regime air strikes on Tuesday struck a militant bastion in northwest Syria where more than 40 civilians have been killed in several days of heavy bombardment, a war monitor said.
 
Four children were among 10 people killed on Tuesday in government fire on several towns in Idlib province and neighboring Aleppo countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
 
A hospital in the Idlib town of Kafranbel was hit by artillery shells, said David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian office.
 

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