DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a new seven-year term with nearly 90 percent of the vote, but Washington said the “non-election” changed nothing and activists said it would spell only more war.
Tens of thousands took to the streets in government-held areas even before the results were announced on Wednesday evening, waving portraits of Assad and the official Syrian flag.
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