Syria Presidential Elections

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  Syria's Interim President Says It Will Take 4-5 Years To Hold Election

  Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Monday it would take between four and five years to hold presidential elections, the first time he has laid out a timeline for the vote since he was named transitional president last week.

• Bashar al-Assad's Overwhelming Win Annoys West: Xinhua

  Incumbent Bashar al-Assad's victory in the Syrian presidential election has been met with much criticism from the country's opposition and the West, which dismissed the ballot as a "sham".

• Syria's Bashar Assad Wins Presidential Vote in Landslide

  Syrian President Bashar Assad has been re-elected in a landslide, officials said Wednesday, capturing another seven-year term in the middle of a bloody 3-year-old uprising against his rule that has devastated the country.

• Syria's Bashar al-Assad Poses for a 'Selfie' as He, First Lady Vote

  Confident and casual, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad voted today along with his British-born wife, Asma, for his own re-election, displaying an image that contrasts sharply with the war he is waging.

• Amid War and Shelling, Syrians Vote For President

  Waving photos of President Bashar Assad and dancing with flags, tens of thousands of Syrians pledged renewed allegiance to President Bashar Assad as they voted Tuesday in a presidential election that excluded a vast swath of the pre-war population and was decried by the opposition as a charade.

• 5 Things to Know About Tuesday's Election in Syria

  Syria's first multi-candidate presidential elections in decades is being touted by President Bashar Assad's government as measuring Syrians' support for him after three years of civil war that has killed and wounded tens of thousands of people, displaced millions of others and destroyed parts of the country.

• War not to deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from elections

  Syrian President Bashar Assad is quietly preparing the ground to hold elections by early this summer to win another 7-year term, even as the Syrian conflict rampages into its fourth year with large parts of the country either in ruins or under opposition control and nearly a third of the population scattered by civil war.