Vote counting began Sunday evening in Syria following the close of polls in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of Bashar...

DAMASCUS: The streets of Damascus barely showed sign Saturday a parliamentary election was set to take place the next day. There were no candidate posters on the main streets and…

Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a step forward after decades of dictatorship.