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The school year ended and the two students, Hussein and Nuri al-Ibish, went back to Damascus from the American University of Beirut (then called the Syrian Protestant College ), to spend their.
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Bashar Assad and his wife Asma at a polling station in Damascus on July 19. (AFP) London – Ibrahim Hamidi
The upcoming Syrian presidential elections will be the scene of an “early silent battle” between Russia and its allies on the one side and the United States and its partners on the other. The elections will be the first to be held after Russia cemented its military presence in the war-torn country and during the first months of Joe Biden’s term as US president. They will also be held amid the significant field developments and the drawing of borders of the three “areas of influence” in Syria. Significantly, they are also being held amid a crippling economic crisis, western economic sanctions and Syria’s political and diplomatic isolation.