Security forces take aim from a rooftop during clashes in the majority-Druze Suweida province, Syria, on July 16, 2025. Bakr Alaksem/AFP via Getty Images
Syria’s first parliamentary election under its new Islamist leadership, set for September, will not include the strife-torn southern province of Suweida and the northeastern Raqqa and Hasaka provinces, according to Syrian officials.
Over the weekend, Syrian media outlet Al-Ekhbariya, citing an electoral commission official, reported that voting in the three provinces would be postponed until “appropriate conditions” for conducting polls are in place.
