Second candidate submits bid for #syria's #presidential_election
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/second-candidate-registers-syrias-presidential-election
A businessman who studied in the United States on Thursday became the second hopeful to register for Syria’s controversial June presidential election which is expected to return incumbent Bashar al-Assad to office. Like the first would-be candidate to declare, Hassan Abdullah al-Nuri is a member of the regime-tolerated opposition. The authorities have not spelt out how they plan to hold a credible election amid a raging civil war in which they have lost control of large swathes of the country to rebel groups and militias. read more