War-ravaged Syria votes with Assad set to win
By AFP
26 May 2021 |
2:24 pm
People across Syria are voting in a presidential election in which few doubt Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis.
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