Tensions have been building over government attempts to bring the Kurdish-led region in northeastern Syria under its authority. Kurdish leaders have so far resisted.
Residents leaving the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, after overnight clashes between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
In the first elections since the Assad regime was ousted, there was no popular vote and women and minorities won few seats. Still, many Syrians saw it as progress toward ending authoritarian rule.
The spokesman for Syria’s electoral committee, Nawar Najma, announces results of the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, at a news conference in Damascus on Monday.
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