Bashar al-Assad wins landslide re-election amid civil war

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Bashar al-Assad wins landslide re-election amid civil war
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won re-election to a third term with a staggering 88.7 percent of the vote, according to multiple reports. Coming amid a three-year-old civil war marked by the use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces, the outcome was never really in doubt.

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Jon Terbush
Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.