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SYRIANS went to the polls yesterday to elect a new parliament in defiance of foreign-funded revolutionaries and terrorist armies.
Around 7,300 polling stations across the country opened at 7am as voters elected 250 MPs from over 3,500 candidates despite the ongoing civil war.
President Bashar al-Assad and his London-born investment banker wife Asma al-Assad cast their votes together at the Assad Library in Damascus in the morning.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention
